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b10d79f7 1 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64]
03d926f8 2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
6a1f5471 3 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt |
e58d154b 4 copy_dsdt }
1da177e4 5 force -- enable ACPI if default was off
6a1f5471 6 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64]
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7 off -- disable ACPI if default was on
8 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 9 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
1da177e4 10 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
237889bf 11 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
aa2110cb 12 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory
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13 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
14 are available
1da177e4 15
151f4e2b 16 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi
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18 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI, IOAPIC]
19 Format: <int>
20 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
21 1,0: use 1st APIC table
4e381a4f 22 default: 0
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24 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI]
25 acpi_backlight=vendor
26 acpi_backlight=video
27 If set to vendor, prefer vendor specific driver
28 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead
29 of the ACPI video.ko driver.
30
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31 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr
32 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the
33 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64
34 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use
35 the older legacy 32 bit addresses.
36
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37 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
38 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
39 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make
40 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant.
41 This option is useful for developers to identify the
42 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue
43 has something to do with the repair mechanism.
44
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45 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
46 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG]
1da177e4 47 Format: <int>
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48 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI
49 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a
50 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g.,
51 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PCI_COMPONENT
52 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in
53 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g.,
54 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ...
e76f4276 55 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See
cb1aaebe 56 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about
e76f4276 57 debug layers and levels.
a0d84a92 58
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59 Enable processor driver info messages:
60 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000
61 Enable PCI/PCI interrupt routing info messages:
62 acpi.debug_layer=0x400000
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63 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug
64 object while interpreting AML:
65 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2
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66 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware:
67 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff
68
69 Some values produce so much output that the system is
70 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
71 if you need to capture more output.
f989106c 72
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73 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI]
74 { strict | lax | no }
75 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
76 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
77 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
78 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
79 can interfere with legacy drivers.
80 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
81 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
82 resources will fail to bind to device using them.
83 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
84 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
85 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
86 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
87 no further checks are performed.
88
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89 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI]
90 Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
91 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
92 size limitation.
93
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94 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
95 ACPI will balance active IRQs
96 default in APIC mode
97
98 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI]
99 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default)
100 default in PIC mode
101
102 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA
103 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
104
105 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for
106 use by PCI
107 Format: <irq>,<irq>...
108
6dddd7a7 109 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
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110 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
111 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
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112 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
113 the GPE dispatcher.
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114 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
115 GPE floodings.
116 Format: <int>
9c4aa1ee 117
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118 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI]
119 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods
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120 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create
121 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the
122 auto-serialization feature.
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123 This feature is enabled by default.
124 This option allows to turn off the feature.
22b5afce 125
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126 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
127 kernels.
128
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129 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI]
130 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
131 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
132 installed automatically and they will appear under
133 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
134 This option turns off this feature.
135 Note that specifying this option does not affect
136 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
137 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
0cb55ad2 138
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139 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
140 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
141 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
142 second kernel for kdump.
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144 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS
145 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows"
146
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147 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead
148 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI
149 specification revision (when using this switch, it may
150 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a
151 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware).
152
0cb55ad2 153 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings
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154 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1
155 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2
741d8128 156 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings
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157 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor
158 strings
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159 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor
160 strings
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161 acpi_osi= # disable all strings
162
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163 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or
164 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS
165 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only
166 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus
167 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group
168 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings,
169 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line
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170 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not
171 care about the state of the feature group strings which
172 should be controlled by the OSPM.
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173 Examples:
174 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent
175 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all
176 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
177
178 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other
179 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not
180 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can
181 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it
182 multiple times through kernel command line is also
183 meaningless.
184 Examples:
185 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)'
186 FALSE.
187
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188 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or
189 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific
190 string(s). Note that such command can affect the
191 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the
192 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times
193 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may
194 still not able to affect the final state of a string if
195 there are quirks related to this string. This command
196 is useful when one want to control the state of the
197 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to
198 the OSPM features.
199 Examples:
200 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make
201 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE.
202 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make
203 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE.
204 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is
205 equivalent to
206 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"'
207 and
208 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!',
209 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE.
210
6cececfc 211 acpi_pm_good [X86]
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212 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel
213 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
214 and always returns good values.
215
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216 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
217 Format: { level | edge | high | low }
218
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219 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
220 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
221 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
222
223 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
224 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
57044031 225 old_ordering, nonvs, sci_force_enable, nobl }
151f4e2b 226 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on
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227 s3_bios and s3_mode.
228 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
229 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
230 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
231 used during resume from hibernation.
232 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
233 control method, with respect to putting devices into
234 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
235 of _PTS is used by default).
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236 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
237 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
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238 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
239 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
240 but some broken systems don't work without it).
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241 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to
242 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system
243 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely).
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244
245 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
246 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
247 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET
248
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249 add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
250 kernel's map of available physical RAM.
251
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252 agp= [AGP]
253 { off | try_unsupported }
254 off: disable AGP support
255 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets
256 (may crash computer or cause data corruption)
257
bcfde334 258 ALSA [HW,ALSA]
1ca2c806 259 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst
bcfde334 260
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261 alignment= [KNL,ARM]
262 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
263 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings,
264 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
265
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266 align_va_addr= [X86-64]
267 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when
268 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option
269 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h
270 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a
271 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in
272 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler.
273
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274 32: only for 32-bit processes
275 64: only for 64-bit processes
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276 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
277 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
278
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279 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
280 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
281 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
282 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
283 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
284 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
285
89e0b9a3 286 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
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287 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
288 Possible values are:
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289 fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when
290 they are unmapped. Otherwise they are
291 flushed before they will be reused, which
292 is a lot of faster
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293 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in
294 the system
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295 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all
296 devices. The IOMMU driver is not
297 allowed anymore to lift isolation
298 requirements as needed. This option
299 does not override iommu=pt
afa9fdc2 300
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301 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64]
302 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table
303 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU
304 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during
305 IOMMU initialization.
306
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307 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64]
308 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt
309 remapping modes:
310 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode.
311 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU
312 to inject interrupts directly into guest.
313 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1.
314 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.)
315
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316 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support
317 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT
318 Format: <a>,<b>
1752118d 319 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst
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320
321 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support
322 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick
323 connected to one of 16 gameports
324 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16>
325
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326 apc= [HW,SPARC]
327 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.)
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328 Format: noidle
329 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does
330 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
331 APC and your system crashes randomly.
332
64e05d11 333 apic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
806654a9 334 Change the output verbosity while booting
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335 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
336 Change the amount of debugging information output
337 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
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338 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
339 driver name.
340 Format: apic=driver_name
341 Examples: apic=bigsmp
a9913044 342
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343 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
344 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
345 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
346 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
347 backup of CPU 0
348 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
349 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
350 shot down by NMI
351
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352 autoconf= [IPV6]
353 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
354
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355 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
356 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal
357 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible
358 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here.
359 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }.
360 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or
361 apic=verbose is specified.
362 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all
363
1da177e4 364 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management
71f77055 365 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c.
1da177e4 366
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367 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards
368 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID>
369
370 ataflop= [HW,M68k]
371
372 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse
373
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374 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess,
375 EzKey and similar keyboards
376
377 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization
378
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379 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set
380 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2)
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381
382 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar
383 keyboards
384
385 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode
386 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default))
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387
388 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW]
389 Use software keyboard repeat
1da177e4 390
a106fb0c 391 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
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392 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
393 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
394 enabled until the next reboot
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395 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
396 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
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397 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
398 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
399 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
400 userspace auditd.
a106fb0c 401 Default: unset
f3411cb2 402
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403 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.
404 Format: <int> (must be >=0)
405 Default: 64
406
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407 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default
408 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0).
409 Format: { "0" | "1" }
410 0 - Disable the BAU.
411 1 - Enable the BAU.
412 unset - Disable the BAU.
413
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414 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25]
415 Format: <io>,<mode>
a9913044 416
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417 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem
418 Format: <io>,<mode>
419 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c.
420
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421 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25]
422 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode)
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423 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>]
424 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.
425
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426 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25]
427 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode)
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428 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>
429 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c.
430
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431 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for
432 embedded devices based on command line input.
898bd37a 433 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst
080506ad 434
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435 boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
436 Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
437 no delay (0).
438 Format: integer
439
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440 bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
441
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442 bert_disable [ACPI]
443 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.
444
1da177e4 445 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
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446 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
447 kernel args too.
a405ed85 448 bttv.pll= See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/bttv.rst
395cf969 449 bttv.tuner=
1da177e4 450
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451 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
452 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries
453 at a time.
454
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455 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card
456
cd4f0ef7 457 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection.
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458 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache
459 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds
460 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not
461 possible to determine what the correct size should be.
462 This option provides an override for these situations.
463
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464 carrier_timeout=
465 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
466 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default
467 it waits 120 seconds.
468
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469 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on
470 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate
471 trust validation.
32c4741c 472 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin }
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474 cca= [MIPS] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency
475 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7
476 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
477 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
478 others).
479
6dddd7a7 480 ccw_timeout_log [S390]
8b4a503d 481 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
1da177e4 482
6dddd7a7 483 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
8bab8dde 484 Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
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485 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
486 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
487 a single hierarchy
488 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable
489 subsystem
490 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and
491 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
492 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
8bab8dde 493
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494 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1
495 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" }
496 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] }
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497 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1;
498 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2.
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499 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables
500 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables
501 all v1 hierarchies.
1619b6d4 502
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503 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
504 Format: <string>
505 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
04823c83 506 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
f7e1cb6e 507
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508 checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
509 Format: { "0" | "1" }
510 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
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511 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes
512 any implied execute protection).
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513 1 -- check protection requested by application.
514 Default value is set via a kernel config option.
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515 Value can be changed at runtime via
516 /selinux/checkreqprot.
517
661ca0da 518 cio_ignore= [S390]
8b4a503d 519 See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
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520 clk_ignore_unused
521 [CLK]
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522 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
523 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux
524 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or
525 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not
526 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve
527 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
528 debug and development, but should not be needed on a
529 platform with proper driver support. For more
18bcaa4e 530 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
661ca0da 531
cd4f0ef7 532 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
734efb46 533 [Deprecated]
3f6dee9b 534 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
734efb46 535 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
3f6dee9b 536 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT.
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537 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
538
592913ec 539 clocksource= Override the default clocksource
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540 Format: <string>
541 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
542 with the name specified.
543 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on
544 the platform:
545 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource)
546 [ACPI] acpi_pm
547 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
548 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
9863c90f 549 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
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550 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
551 [MIPS] MIPS
552 [PARISC] cr16
553 [S390] tod
554 [SH] SuperH
555 [SPARC64] tick
556 [X86-64] hpet,tsc
557
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558 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm=
559 [ARM,ARM64]
560 Format: <bool>
561 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM
562 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling
563 loops can be debugged more effectively on production
564 systems.
565
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566 clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
567 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
cd4d09ec 568 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit
07983f0e 569 numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
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570 stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
571 ones should be.
572 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
573 or using the feature without checking anything
574 will still see it. This just prevents it from
575 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo.
576 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
577 some critical bits.
578
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579 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
580 [ARM,X86,KNL]
581 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
582 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
583 placement constraint by the physical address range of
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584 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
585 altogether. For more information, see
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586 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
587
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588 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no }
589 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
590 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments
591 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by
592 a hypervisor.
593 Default: yes
594
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595 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL]
596 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma
e9da6e99 597 allocations, by default set to 256K.
c7909509 598
1da177e4 599 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
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600 Format:
601 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]]
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602
603 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers)
604 Format: <io>[,<irq>]
605
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606 com90xx= [HW,NET]
607 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers)
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608 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]]
609
610 condev= [HW,S390] console device
611 conmode=
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613 console= [KNL] Output console device and options.
614
615 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>.
616
617 ttyS<n>[,options]
f1a1c2dc 618 ttyUSB0[,options]
1da177e4 619 Use the specified serial port. The options are of
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620 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate,
621 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of
622 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or
623 omit it). Default is "9600n8".
624
e52347bd 625 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more
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626 information. See
627 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for an
628 alternative.
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630 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
631 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
bd94c407 632 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options]
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633 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
634 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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635 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
636 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
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637 switching to the matching ttyS device later.
638 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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639 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32).
640 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed
641 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in
642 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified,
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643 the h/w is not re-initialized.
644
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645 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
646 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
1da177e4 647
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648 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
649 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
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650 console=brl,ttyS0
651 For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
652
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653 console_msg_format=
654 [KNL] Change console messages format
655 default
656 By default we print messages on consoles in
657 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
658 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
659 `printk_time' param).
660 syslog
661 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
662 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
663 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
664 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
665 from /proc/kmsg.
666
f324edc8 667 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
ac0a314c 668 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
6dddd7a7 669 Defaults to 0.
f324edc8 670
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671 coredump_filter=
672 [KNL] Change the default value for
673 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
674 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
675
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676 coresight_cpu_debug.enable
677 [ARM,ARM64]
678 Format: <bool>
679 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging.
680 0: default value, disable debugging
681 1: enable debugging at boot time
682
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683 cpufreq_driver= [X86] Allow only the named cpu frequency scaling driver
684 to register. Example: cpufreq_driver=powernow-k8
685 Format: { none | STRING }
686
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687 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE]
688 disable the cpuidle sub-system
689
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690 cpuidle.governor=
691 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use.
692
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693 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ]
694 disable the cpufreq sub-system
695
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696 cpu_init_udelay=N
697 [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert
698 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs
699 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend.
700 Default: 10000
701
1da177e4 702 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
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703 Format:
704 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
1da177e4 705
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706 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]]
707 [KNL] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel'
708 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
709 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
710 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
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711 is selected automatically.
712 [KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
713 fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
714 hasn't been specified.
330d4810 715 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details.
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717 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
718 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
719 in the running system. The syntax of range is
720 start-[end] where start and end are both
721 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
330d4810 722 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example.
fb391599 723
adbc742b 724 crashkernel=size[KMG],high
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725 [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
726 to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
727 be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
728 Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
729 available.
730 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
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731 crashkernel=size[KMG],low
732 [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
733 is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
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734 above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
735 that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
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736 requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also enough extra
737 low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers for 32-bit
738 devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate at
739 at least 256M below 4G automatically.
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740 This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
741 for second kernel instead.
742 0: to disable low allocation.
adbc742b 743 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
55a20ee7 744 or memory reserved is below 4G.
c729de8f 745
9e5c9fe4 746 cryptomgr.notests
6dddd7a7 747 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
9e5c9fe4 748
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749 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
750 Format: <dma>
751
752 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET]
753 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc }
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a9913044 755 dasd= [HW,NET]
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756 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c.
757
758 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port
759 (one device per port)
760 Format: <port#>,<type>
1752118d 761 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 762
6dddd7a7 763 ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
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764 time. See
765 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
29e36c9f 766 details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
a648ec05 767
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768 debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
769
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770 debug_boot_weak_hash
771 [KNL] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the
772 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead
773 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are
774 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a
775 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically
776 insecure, please do not use on production kernels.
777
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778 debug_locks_verbose=
779 [KNL] verbose self-tests
780 Format=<0|1>
781 Print debugging info while doing the locking API
782 self-tests.
783 We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to
784 1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
785 only useful to kernel developers.
786
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787 debug_objects [KNL] Enable object debugging
788
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789 no_debug_objects
790 [KNL] Disable object debugging
791
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792 debug_guardpage_minorder=
793 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
794 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
795 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
796 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
797 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
798 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
799 possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
800 to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
801 memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
802 driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
803 random memory location. Note that there exists a class
804 of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
805 F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
806 memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
807 bypassed) which are not detectable by
808 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
809 tracking down these problems.
810
031bc574 811 debug_pagealloc=
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812 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
813 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
814 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
815 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
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816 on: enable the feature
817
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818 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging
819
2d27a966 820 decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
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821 Format: <area>[,<node>]
822 See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
823
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825 [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
826 HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
827 the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
828 default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
829 Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
830 if not specified.
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832 deferred_probe_timeout=
833 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
834 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
835 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
836 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
837 will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
838 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
839 retrying.
840
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841 dhash_entries= [KNL]
842 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.
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844 disable_1tb_segments [PPC]
845 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This
846 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which
847 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB
848 miss to occur.
849
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850 disable= [IPV6]
851 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
852
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853 hardened_usercopy=
854 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether
855 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened
856 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel
857 from reading or writing beyond known memory
858 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense
859 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's
860 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface.
861 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default).
862 off Disable hardened usercopy checks.
863
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864 disable_radix [PPC]
865 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9
866
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867 disable_cpu_apicid= [X86,APIC,SMP]
868 Format: <int>
869 The number of initial APIC ID for the
870 corresponding CPU to be disabled at boot,
871 mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to
872 disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without
873 causing system reset or hang due to sending
874 INIT from AP to BSP.
875
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876 perf_v4_pmi= [X86,INTEL]
877 Format: <bool>
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878 Disable Intel PMU counter freezing feature.
879 The feature only exists starting from
880 Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
881
6dddd7a7 882 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
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883 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
884 to workaround buggy firmware.
885
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886 disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
887 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
888
95ffa243 889 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
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890 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
891 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
0cb55ad2 892 entry later. This parameter disables that.
95ffa243 893
093af8d7 894 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]
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895 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable
896 memory out of your available memory pool based on
897 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior,
898 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly.
899
6cececfc 900 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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901 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer
902 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.
903
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904 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader.
905
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906 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support,
907 this option disables the debugging code at boot.
908
909 dma_debug_entries=<number>
910 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated
911 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is
912 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the
913 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the
914 architectural default is too low.
915
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916 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name>
917 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver
918 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just
919 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter.
920 The filter can be disabled or changed to another
921 driver later using sysfs.
922
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923 driver_async_probe= [KNL]
924 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
925 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
926
53fd40a9 927 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
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928 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless
929 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets.
930 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets
931 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead.
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932 Generic built-in EDID data sets are used, if one of
933 edid/1024x768.bin, edid/1280x1024.bin,
934 edid/1680x1050.bin, or edid/1920x1080.bin is given
935 and no file with the same name exists. Details and
936 instructions how to build your own EDID data are
baa293e9 937 available in Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst. An EDID
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938 data set will only be used for a particular connector,
939 if its name and a colon are prepended to the EDID
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940 name. Each connector may use a unique EDID data
941 set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID
942 data set with no connector name will be used for
943 any connectors not explicitly specified.
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945 dscc4.setup= [NET]
946
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947 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC]
948 Format: {"off" | "known"}
949 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is
950 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it
951 exists).
952 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table.
953 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests
954 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of.
955
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956 dump_apple_properties [X86]
957 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on
958 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine
959 what data is available or for reverse-engineering.
960
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961 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG]
962 module.dyndbg[="val"]
963 Enable debug messages at boot time. See
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965 for details.
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8c3641e9 967 nompx [X86] Disables Intel Memory Protection Extensions.
cb1aaebe 968 See Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.rst for more
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969 information about the feature.
970
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971 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found
972 in some Intel CPUs.
973
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974 module.async_probe [KNL]
975 Enable asynchronous probe on this module.
976
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977 early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
978 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
979 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
980 which are not unmapped.
981
0cb55ad2 982 earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
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984 [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
985 stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
986 or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
987
988 [X86] When used with no options the early console is
989 determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
5664f764 990
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991 cdns,<addr>[,options]
992 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
993 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only
994 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not
995 specified, the serial port must already be setup and
996 configured.
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998 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
999 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
1917ac76 1000 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
6e63be3f 1001 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options]
ca782f16 1002 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options]
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1003 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
1004 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
16290246 1005 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
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1006 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be).
1007 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed
1008 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified
1009 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if
ca782f16 1010 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized.
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0d3c673e 1012 pl011,<addr>
3b78fae7 1013 pl011,mmio32,<addr>
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1014 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
1015 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
1016 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
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1017 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only
1018 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
1019 the device registers.
0d3c673e 1020
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1021 meson,<addr>
1022 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
1023 port at the specified address. The serial port must
1024 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet
1025 supported.
1026
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1027 msm_serial,<addr>
1028 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1029 port at the specified address. The serial port
1030 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1031 yet supported.
1032
1033 msm_serial_dm,<addr>
1034 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial
1035 dm port at the specified address. The serial port
1036 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1037 yet supported.
1038
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1039 owl,<addr>
1040 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1041 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the
1042 specified address. The serial port must already be
1043 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1044
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1045 rda,<addr>
1046 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port
1047 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the
1048 specified address. The serial port must already be
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1049 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1050
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1051 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
1052
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1053 s3c2410,<addr>
1054 s3c2412,<addr>
1055 s3c2440,<addr>
1056 s3c6400,<addr>
1057 s5pv210,<addr>
1058 exynos4210,<addr>
1059 Use early console provided by serial driver available
1060 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and
1061 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The
1062 serial port must already be setup and configured.
1063 Options are not yet supported.
1064
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1065 lantiq,<addr>
1066 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial
1067 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port
1068 must already be setup and configured. Options are not
1069 yet supported.
1070
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1071 lpuart,<addr>
1072 lpuart32,<addr>
1073 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver
1074 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors.
1075 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
1076 port must already be setup and configured.
1077
f7c864e7 1078 ar3700_uart,<addr>
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WD
1079 Start an early, polled-mode console on the
1080 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
1081 address. The serial port must already be setup
1082 and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1083
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KR
1084 qcom_geni,<addr>
1085 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm
1086 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the
1087 specified address. The serial port must already be
1088 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
1089
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AB
1090 efifb,[options]
1091 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI
1092 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache
1093 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for
1094 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is
1095 mapped with the correct attributes.
1096
4ba66a97 1097 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
1da177e4 1098 earlyprintk=vga
89175cf7 1099 earlyprintk=sclp
2482a92e 1100 earlyprintk=xen
1da177e4 1101 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
147ea091 1102 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]]
ea3acb19 1103 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
9780bc41 1104 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
d2266bbf 1105 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate]
1b5aeebf 1106 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
1da177e4 1107
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DH
1108 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
1109 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
1110 default because it has some cosmetic problems.
1111
a9913044 1112 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console
1da177e4
LT
1113 takes over.
1114
72548e83
MF
1115 Only one of vga, efi, serial, or usb debug port can
1116 be used at a time.
1da177e4 1117
147ea091
DH
1118 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by
1119 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified
1120 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by
1121 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this:
1122 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
1123 You can find the port for a given device in
1124 /proc/tty/driver/serial:
1125 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ...
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LT
1126
1127 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not
1128 very good.
1129
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MF
1130 The VGA and EFI output is eventually overwritten by
1131 the real console.
1da177e4 1132
2482a92e
KRW
1133 The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
1134
89175cf7
HC
1135 The sclp output can only be used on s390.
1136
d2266bbf
FT
1137 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a
1138 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the
1139 UART class.
1140
c700f013
CG
1141 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
1142 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
1143 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
1144 by other higher priority error reporting module.
1145 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
1146 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
1147 default: on.
1148
9731191f
JW
1149 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
1150 ekgdboc=kbd
1151
25985edc 1152 This is designed to be used in conjunction with
9731191f
JW
1153 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
1154
1da177e4 1155 edd= [EDD]
8c4dd606 1156 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
1da177e4 1157
d2f7cbe7 1158 efi= [EFI]
fed6cefe 1159 Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
d2f7cbe7
BP
1160 old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
1161 runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
1162 default.
5a17dae4
MF
1163 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI
1164 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
1165 firmware implementations.
5ae3683c 1166 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
fed6cefe 1167 debug: enable misc debug output
d2f7cbe7 1168
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RW
1169 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
1170 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
1171 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
1172 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
1173 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
1174
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TI
1175 efi_fake_mem= nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa[,nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]:aa,..] [EFI; X86]
1176 Add arbitrary attribute to specific memory range by
1177 updating original EFI memory map.
1178 Region of memory which aa attribute is added to is
1179 from ss to ss+nn.
1180 If efi_fake_mem=2G@4G:0x10000,2G@0x10a0000000:0x10000
1181 is specified, EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE(0x10000)
1182 attribute is added to range 0x100000000-0x180000000 and
1183 0x10a0000000-0x1120000000.
1184
1185 Using this parameter you can do debugging of EFI memmap
1186 related feature. For example, you can do debugging of
1187 Address Range Mirroring feature even if your box
1188 doesn't support it.
1189
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OP
1190 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT
1191 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are
1192 multiple variables with the same name but with different
1193 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See
cb1aaebe 1194 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details.
475fb4e8
OP
1195
1196
1da177e4
LT
1197 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
1198 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
1199
cd4f0ef7 1200 elanfreq= [X86-32]
1da177e4 1201 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in
71f77055 1202 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
1da177e4
LT
1203
1204 elevator= [IOSCHED]
31dcbbef 1205 Format: { "mq-deadline" | "kyber" | "bfq" }
898bd37a
MCC
1206 See Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.rst,
1207 Documentation/block/kyber-iosched.rst and
1208 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.rst for details.
a9913044 1209
d3bf3795 1210 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [IA64,PPC,SH,X86,S390]
a9913044 1211 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
d3bf3795
MH
1212 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally
1213 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel.
330d4810 1214 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details.
1da177e4 1215
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RD
1216 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86]
1217 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous
1218 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB
1219 entry later. This parameter enables that.
1220
ca1eda2d 1221 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86]
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RD
1222 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer
1223 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs
1224 (in particular on some ATI chipsets).
1225 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default.
1226
1da177e4
LT
1227 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
1228 Format: {"0" | "1"}
1229 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
1230 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials).
1231 1 -- enforcing (deny and log).
1232 Default value is 0.
1233 Value can be changed at runtime via /selinux/enforce.
1234
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HY
1235 erst_disable [ACPI]
1236 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST)
1237 support.
1238
1da177e4
LT
1239 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters
1240 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which
1241 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details.
1242
7102ebcd
MZ
1243 evm= [EVM]
1244 Format: { "fix" }
1245 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of
1246 current integrity status.
1247
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AM
1248 failslab=
1249 fail_page_alloc=
1250 fail_make_request=[KNL]
1251 General fault injection mechanism.
1252 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
395cf969 1253 See also Documentation/fault-injection/.
de1ba09b 1254
1da177e4 1255 floppy= [HW]
e7751617 1256 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
1da177e4 1257
f13ae30e
AC
1258 force_pal_cache_flush
1259 [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on
1260 buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this
1261 parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
1262 ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
1263
6dddd7a7 1264 forcepae [X86-32]
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CB
1265 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
1266 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
1267 functionally usable PAE implementation.
1268 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel
1269 and may cause unknown problems.
1270
d9e54076 1271 ftrace=[tracer]
2af15d6a 1272 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer
d9e54076
PZ
1273 as early as possible in order to facilitate early
1274 boot debugging.
1275
cecbca96 1276 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=orig_cpu]
2af15d6a 1277 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops.
cecbca96
FW
1278 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump
1279 buffers of all CPUs, but if you pass orig_cpu, it will
1280 dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered the
1281 oops.
2af15d6a
SR
1282
1283 ftrace_filter=[function-list]
1284 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function
1285 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
1286 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
1287 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs
16290246 1288 tracing directory.
2af15d6a
SR
1289
1290 ftrace_notrace=[function-list]
1291 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in
1292 function-list. This list can be changed at run time
1293 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs
1294 tracing directory.
d9e54076 1295
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SA
1296 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list]
1297 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced
1298 by the function graph tracer at boot up.
1299 function-list is a comma separated list of functions
1300 that can be changed at run time by the
1301 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1302
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NK
1303 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list]
1304 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in
1305 function-list. This list is a comma separated list of
1306 functions that can be changed at run time by the
1307 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory.
1308
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TB
1309 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint>
1310 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is
1311 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value
1312 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file
1313 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit)
1314
1da177e4
LT
1315 gamecon.map[2|3]=
1316 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
1317 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
1318 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5>
1752118d 1319 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4
LT
1320
1321 gamma= [HW,DRM]
1322
6dddd7a7 1323 gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
aaf23042
YL
1324 Format: off | on
1325 default: on
1326
2521f2c2
PO
1327 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
1328 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
1329 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
1330 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated
1331 debugfs files are removed at module unload time.
1332
47512cfd
TG
1333 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform.
1334 Don't use this when you are not running on the
1335 android emulator
1336
1da177e4 1337 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but
6c5de79b
DB
1338 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the
1339 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate
1340 GPT to be used instead.
1da177e4 1341
6cec9b07
AL
1342 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines
1343 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1344 Format: 0 | 1
1345 Default: 0
1346 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines
1347 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register.
1348 Format: 0 | 1
1349 Default: 0
1350 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use.
1351 Format: 0 | 1
1352 Default: 0
1353 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer.
1354 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1355 Default: 1024
1356 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer.
1357 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0.
1358 Default: 1024
1359
0f98dd1b
BJZ
1360 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges
1361 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device.
1362 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>...
1363
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JK
1364 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
1365 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate
1366 backtraces on all cpus.
1367 Format: <integer>
1368
1da177e4
LT
1369 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot
1370 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on
16290246 1371 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise.
a9913044 1372 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on)
1da177e4
LT
1373
1374 hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer
1375
1376 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry
1377 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect>
1378
ea8c071c
HY
1379 hest_disable [ACPI]
1380 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support;
1381 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing
1382 logic will be disabled.
1383
1da177e4
LT
1384 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact
1385 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no
1386 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
1387 size on bigger boxes.
1388
54cdfdb4
TG
1389 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
1390 Valid parameters: "on", "off"
1391 Default: "on"
1392
0cb55ad2
RD
1393 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH]
1394
1395 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
1396 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
1397 verbose }
1398 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
1399 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
1400 VIA, nVidia)
1401 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
1402
3d035f58
PB
1403 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
1404 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
1405
b4718e62
AK
1406 hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
1407 hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
0d9ea754
JT
1408 On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
1409 multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
1410 huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
1411 x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
27ec26ec 1412 (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
6902aa84 1413
a49d9c0a
OS
1414 hung_task_panic=
1415 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
1416 Format: <integer>
cef7125d 1417
a49d9c0a
OS
1418 A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
1419 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
1420 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
1421 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
1422 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
1423
6dddd7a7
TB
1424 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
1425 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
1426 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
1427 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
1428 from listed z/VM user IDs only.
3a025de6
YS
1429
1430 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V] Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations
1431 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the
1432 guest on lock contention.
1433
7bf69395
FDN
1434 keep_bootcon [KNL]
1435 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
1436 useful for debugging when something happens in the window
1437 between unregistering the boot console and initializing
1438 the real console.
1439
6dddd7a7
TB
1440 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
1441 or register an additional I2C bus that is not
1442 registered from board initialization code.
1443 Format:
1444 <bus_id>,<clkrate>
3a853fb9 1445
36d95739 1446 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
e1443d28
SCP
1447 i8042.unmask_kbd_data
1448 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port
1449 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition
1450 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled)
1da177e4 1451 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
84eb8d06
ML
1452 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
1453 keyboard and cannot control its state
1da177e4
LT
1454 (Don't attempt to blink the leds)
1455 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port
945ef0d4 1456 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port
75d08c78
JK
1457 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing
1458 for the AUX port
1da177e4 1459 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing
e55a3366 1460 controller
1da177e4
LT
1461 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX
1462 controllers
24775d65 1463 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller
930e1924
MPS
1464 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and
1465 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r
1466 transitions, or never reset
1467 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n }
1468 1, Y, y: always reset controller
1469 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller
1470 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
1471 architectures force reset to be always executed
1da177e4 1472 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
6dddd7a7 1473 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
1da177e4
LT
1474
1475 i810= [HW,DRM]
1476
e70c9d5e
DT
1477 i8k.ignore_dmi [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data
1478 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported
1479 hardware.
1da177e4
LT
1480 i8k.force [HW] Activate i8k driver even if SMM BIOS signature
1481 does not match list of supported models.
1482 i8k.power_status
1483 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k
1484 (disabled by default)
1485 i8k.restricted [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN
1486 capability is set.
1487
4dca20ef 1488 i915.invert_brightness=
7bd90909
CE
1489 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to
1490 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a
4dca20ef
CE
1491 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off,
1492 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight
1493 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0
1494 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter
1495 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight
1496 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness
1497 value switches the backlight off.
1498 -1 -- never invert brightness
1499 0 -- machine default
1500 1 -- force brightness inversion
7bd90909 1501
1da177e4
LT
1502 icn= [HW,ISDN]
1503 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]]
1504
0af80c04
DF
1505 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1506 Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
075affcb
BZ
1507 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
1508 .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
d7b461c5 1509 See Documentation/ide/ide.rst.
1da177e4 1510
0f8b7f5d
MR
1511 ide-generic.probe-mask= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1512 Format: <int>
1513 Probe mask for legacy ISA IDE ports. Depending on
1514 platform up to 6 ports are supported, enabled by
1515 setting corresponding bits in the mask to 1. The
1516 default value is 0x0, which has a special meaning.
1517 On systems that have PCI, it triggers scanning the
1518 PCI bus for the first and the second port, which
1519 are then probed. On systems without PCI the value
1520 of 0x0 enables probing the two first ports as if it
1521 was 0x3.
1522
0cb55ad2
RD
1523 ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
1524 Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
1525
f039b754 1526 idle= [X86]
69fb3676 1527 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
ada9cfdd
RD
1528 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
1529 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
1530 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
1531 Not recommended.
ada9cfdd 1532 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
c1e3b377 1533 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
ada9cfdd 1534 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
a9913044 1535
503943e0
MR
1536 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode
1537 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed }
1538 Default: strict
1539
1540 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution
1541 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by
1542 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value
1543 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each
1544 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to
1545 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN
1546 encoding mode.
1547
1548 Available settings are as follows:
1549 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding
1550 supported by the FPU
1551 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported
1552 by the FPU
1553 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported
1554 by the FPU
1555 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether
1556 supported by the FPU
1557
1558 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN
1559 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has
1560 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of
1561 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly,
1562 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and
1563 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on
1564 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or
1565 MIPS64 CPUs.
1566
1567 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution
1568 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding,
1569 except where unsupported by hardware.
1570
79290822
IM
1571 ignore_loglevel [KNL]
1572 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
1573 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
0eca6b7c
YZ
1574 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
1575 could change it dynamically, usually by
1576 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
79290822 1577
d977d56c
KK
1578 ignore_rlimit_data
1579 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings,
1580 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via
1581 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.
1582
1da177e4
LT
1583 ihash_entries= [KNL]
1584 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
1585
2fe5d6de 1586 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
2faa6ef3 1587 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" }
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1588 default: "enforce"
1589
41475a3e 1590 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1591 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files
1592 owned by uid=0.
1593
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1594 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA]
1595 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime
1596 measurements, instead of host native format.
1597
3323eec9 1598 ima_hash= [IMA]
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1599 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384
1600 | sha512 | ... }
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1601 default: "sha1"
1602
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1603 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined
1604 in crypto/hash_info.h.
1605
24fd03c8 1606 ima_policy= [IMA]
33ce9549 1607 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup.
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1608 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot |
1609 fail_securely"
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1610
1611 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files
1612 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read
1613 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or
1614 uid=0.
1615
1616 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of
41475a3e 1617 all files owned by root.
24fd03c8 1618
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1619 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity
1620 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules,
1621 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures.
24fd03c8 1622
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1623 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature
1624 verification failure also on privileged mounted
1625 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE
1626 flag.
1627
24fd03c8 1628 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead.
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1629 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted
1630 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all
1631 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
1632 opened for read by uid=0.
1633
6dddd7a7 1634 ima_template= [IMA]
9b9d4ce5 1635 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
8265a2f8 1636 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
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1637 Default: "ima-ng"
1638
c2426d2a 1639 ima_template_fmt=
6dddd7a7 1640 [IMA] Define a custom template format.
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1641 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
1642
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1643 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
1644 Format: <min_file_size>
1645 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash.
1646 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled.
1647
1648 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on
1649 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1650 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW.
1651
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1652 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size
1653 Format: <bufsize>
1654 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k.
1655
1656 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on
1657 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used
1658 to achieve best performance for particular HW.
1659
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1660 init= [KNL]
1661 Format: <full_path>
1662 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
1663 process.
1664
1665 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful
1666 for working out where the kernel is dying during
1667 startup.
1668
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1669 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
1670 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in
1671 modules and initcalls.
1672
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1673 initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
1674
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1675 init_on_alloc= [MM] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with
1676 zeroes.
1677 Format: 0 | 1
1678 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON.
1679
1680 init_on_free= [MM] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes.
1681 Format: 0 | 1
1682 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
1683
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1684 init_pkru= [x86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
1685 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
1686 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can
1687 override in debugfs after boot.
1688
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1689 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
1690 Format: <irq>
1691
6dddd7a7 1692 int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
6bb2ff84 1693
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1694 integrity_audit=[IMA]
1695 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1696 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default)
1697 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages.
1698
ba395927 1699 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
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1700 on
1701 Enable intel iommu driver.
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1702 off
1703 Disable intel iommu driver.
1704 igfx_off [Default Off]
1705 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx
1706 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is
1707 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
1708 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
1709 DMA.
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1710 forcedac [x86_64]
1711 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
16290246 1712 for io virtual address below 32-bit forcing dual
7d3b03ce 1713 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
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1714 than 32-bit addressing. The default is to look
1715 for translation below 32-bit and if not available
7d3b03ce 1716 then look in the higher range.
5e0d2a6f 1717 strict [Default Off]
1718 With this option on every unmap_single operation will
1719 result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as opposed
1720 to batching them for performance.
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1721 sp_off [Default Off]
1722 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU
1723 has the capability. With this option, super page will
1724 not be supported.
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1725 sm_on [Default Off]
1726 By default, scalable mode will be disabled even if the
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1727 hardware advertises that it has support for the scalable
1728 mode translation. With this option set, scalable mode
8950dcd8 1729 will be used on hardware which claims to support it.
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1730 tboot_noforce [Default Off]
1731 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot.
1732 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which
1733 could harm performance of some high-throughput
1734 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity
1735 mapping is enabled.
1736 Note that using this option lowers the security
1737 provided by tboot because it makes the system
1738 vulnerable to DMA attacks.
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1739
1740 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86]
1741 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
22c6bbe4 1742 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
2e92c7ad 1743
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1744 intel_pstate= [X86]
1745 disable
1746 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
1747 scaling driver for the supported processors
1748 passive
1749 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
1750 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
1751 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
1752 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
1753 feature.
1754 force
1755 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
1756 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
1757 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
1758 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
1759 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
1760 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
1761 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
1762 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
1763 no_hwp
1764 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
1765 if available.
1766 hwp_only
1767 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
1768 hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
1769 support_acpi_ppc
1770 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
1771 Description Table, specifies preferred power management
1772 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
1773 then this feature is turned on by default.
1774 per_cpu_perf_limits
1775 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
1776 cpufreq sysfs interface
6be26498 1777
d1423d56 1778 intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
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1779 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
1780 off disable Interrupt Remapping
1781 nosid disable Source ID checking
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1782 no_x2apic_optout
1783 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored
b7d20631 1784 nopost disable Interrupt Posting
d1423d56 1785
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1786 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
1787 strict regions from userspace.
1788 relaxed
1789
1790 iommu= [x86]
1791 off
1792 force
1793 noforce
1794 biomerge
1795 panic
1796 nopanic
1797 merge
1798 nomerge
0cb55ad2 1799 soft
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1800 pt [x86]
1801 nopt [x86]
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1802 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV]
1803 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices.
bcb71abe 1804
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1805 iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
1806 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1807 0 - Lazy mode.
1808 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
1809 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased
1810 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation.
1811 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by
1812 the relevant IOMMU driver.
1813 1 - Strict mode (default).
1814 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
1815 synchronously.
1816
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1817 iommu.passthrough=
1818 [ARM64] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.
1819 Format: { "0" | "1" }
1820 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA.
1821 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA.
9d723b4c 1822 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH.
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1823
1824 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
1825 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in
1826 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c.
1827
6cececfc 1828 io_delay= [X86] I/O delay method
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1829 0x80
1830 Standard port 0x80 based delay
1831 0xed
1832 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems)
b02aae9c 1833 udelay
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1834 Simple two microseconds delay
1835 none
1836 No delay
b02aae9c 1837
1da177e4 1838 ip= [IP_PNP]
dc7a0816 1839 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 1840
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1841 ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
1842 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
1843
fbf19803 1844 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
2d13e6ca 1845 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
fbf19803 1846
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1847 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe=
1848 [ARM, ARM64]
1849 Format: <bool>
1850 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page
1851 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
1852 exposed by the device tree is too small.
1853
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1854 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
1855 [ARM, ARM64]
1856 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
1857 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
1858 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
1859 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
1860 LPIs.
1861
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1862 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64]
1863 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This
1864 requires the kernel to be built with
1865 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI.
1866
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1867 irqfixup [HW]
1868 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1869 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1870 firmware running.
1871
1872 irqpoll [HW]
1873 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
1874 for it. Also check all handlers each timer
1875 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken
1876 firmware running.
1877
1da177e4 1878 isapnp= [ISAPNP]
a9913044 1879 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
1da177e4 1880
d94d1053 1881 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
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1882 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
1883 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
1884
1885 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances
1886 specified in the flag list (default: domain):
1887
1888 nohz
1889 Disable the tick when a single task runs.
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1890
1891 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
1892 need to affine to housekeeping through the global
1893 workqueue's affinity configured via the
1894 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
1895 by using the 'domain' flag described below.
1896
1897 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
1898 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
1899 be configured manually after bootup.
1900
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1901 domain
1902 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
1903 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
1904 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to
1905 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly
1906 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load
1907 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file.
1908 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can
1909 move in and out of an isolated set anytime.
1910
1911 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via
1912 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset.
1913 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is
1914 "number of CPUs in system - 1".
1915
1916 The format of <cpu-list> is described above.
b225d44e 1917
1da177e4 1918
1da177e4 1919
a9913044 1920 iucv= [HW,NET]
1da177e4 1921
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1922 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86_64]
1923 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1924 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1925 example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to
1926 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1927 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0
1928
1929 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86_64]
1930 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID
1931 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1932 example, to map HPET-ID decimal 0 to
1933 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as:
1934 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0
1935
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1936 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86_64]
1937 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID
1938 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. For
1939 example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to
1940 PCI device 00:14.5 write the parameter as:
1941 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0
1942
1da177e4 1943 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
1752118d 1944 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
1da177e4 1945
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1946 nokaslr [KNL]
1947 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
1948 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
1949 Layout Randomization).
24f2e027 1950
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1951 kasan_multi_shot
1952 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
1953 report on every invalid memory access. Without this
1954 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
1955 invalid access.
1956
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1957 keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
1958
342332e6 1959 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
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1960 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror"
1961 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by
1962 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested
1963 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the
1964 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for
1965 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the
1966 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and
1967 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and
1968 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE.
1969
1970 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that
1971 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration
1972 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem
1973 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
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1974 zone if it does not.
1975
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1976 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in
1977 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system
1978 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror"
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1979 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used
1980 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used
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1981 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror"
1982 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms.
ed7ed365 1983
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1984 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port.
1985 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval]
1986 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug
1987 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is
1988 optional and is the number seconds in between
1989 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need
1990 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with
1991 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When
1992 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into
1993 the kernel debugger.
1994
84c08fd6 1995 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles.
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1996 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling,
1997 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb).
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1998 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud]
1999 keyboard only format: kbd
2000 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud]
2001 Optional Kernel mode setting:
2002 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd
2003 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud]
6cdf6e06 2004
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2005 kgdbwait [KGDB] Stop kernel execution and enter the
2006 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity.
2007
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2008 kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
2009 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip
2010 Ethernet adapter MAC address.
2011
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2012 kmemleak= [KNL] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable
2013 Valid arguments: on, off
2014 Default: on
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2015 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y,
2016 the default is off.
04f70336 2017
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2018 kprobe_event=[probe-list]
2019 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time.
2020 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe
2021 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events
2022 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited.
2023 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with
2024 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line;
2025
2026 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
2027
2028 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel
2029 Boot Parameter" section.
2030
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2031 kpti= [ARM64] Control page table isolation of user
2032 and kernel address spaces.
2033 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation.
2034 0: force disabled
2035 1: force enabled
2036
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2037 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
2038 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
2039
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2040 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface.
2041 Default is false (don't support).
2042
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2043 kvm.mmu_audit= [KVM] This is a R/W parameter which allows audit
2044 KVM MMU at runtime.
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2045 Default is 0 (off)
2046
fef07aae 2047 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM.
8475f94a 2048 Default is 1 (enabled)
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2049
2050 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Disable nested paging (virtualized MMU)
2051 for all guests.
16290246 2052 Default is 1 (enabled) if in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode.
fef07aae 2053
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2054 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap=
2055 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0
2056 system registers
2057
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2058 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap=
2059 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1
2060 system registers
2061
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2062 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap=
2063 [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common
2064 system registers
2065
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2066 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=
2067 [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of
2068 LPIs.
2069
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2070 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables
2071 (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips.
2072 Default is 1 (enabled)
2073
2074 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state=
2075 [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states
2076 Default is 0 (disabled)
2077
2078 kvm-intel.flexpriority=
2079 [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow).
2080 Default is 1 (enabled)
2081
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2082 kvm-intel.nested=
2083 [KVM,Intel] Enable VMX nesting (nVMX).
2084 Default is 0 (disabled)
2085
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2086 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest=
2087 [KVM,Intel] Disable unrestricted guest feature
2088 (virtualized real and unpaged mode) on capable
2089 Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled)
2090
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2091 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault
2092 CVE-2018-3620.
2093
2094 Valid arguments: never, cond, always
2095
2096 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
2097 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between
2098 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory.
2099 never: Disables the mitigation
2100
2101 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances)
2102
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2103 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Disable Virtual Processor Identification
2104 feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips.
2105 Default is 1 (enabled)
2106
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2107 l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
2108 affected CPUs
2109
2110 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally
2111 enabled and cannot be disabled.
2112
2113 full
2114 Provides all available mitigations for the
2115 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and
2116 enables all mitigations in the
2117 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush.
2118
2119 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2120 sysfs interface is still possible after
2121 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2122 when the first VM is started in a
2123 potentially insecure configuration,
2124 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2125
2126 full,force
2127 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D
2128 flush runtime control. Implies the
2129 'nosmt=force' command line option.
2130 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.)
2131
2132 flush
2133 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default
2134 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional
2135 L1D flush.
2136
2137 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2138 sysfs interface is still possible after
2139 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2140 when the first VM is started in a
2141 potentially insecure configuration,
2142 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2143
2144 flush,nosmt
2145
2146 Disables SMT and enables the default
2147 hypervisor mitigation.
2148
2149 SMT control and L1D flush control via the
2150 sysfs interface is still possible after
2151 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning
2152 when the first VM is started in a
2153 potentially insecure configuration,
2154 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled.
2155
2156 flush,nowarn
2157 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not
2158 warn when a VM is started in a potentially
2159 insecure configuration.
2160
2161 off
2162 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
2163 emit any warnings.
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2164 It also drops the swap size and available
2165 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
2166 bare metal.
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2167
2168 Default is 'flush'.
2169
65fd4cb6 2170 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
d90a7a0e 2171
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2172 l2cr= [PPC]
2173
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2174 l3cr= [PPC]
2175
cd4f0ef7 2176 lapic [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
a9913044 2177 disabled it.
1da177e4 2178
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2179 lapic= [x86,APIC] "notscdeadline" Do not use TSC deadline
2180 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default
2181 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC.
2182
6cececfc 2183 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC] trust the local apic timer
ada9cfdd 2184 in C2 power state.
e585bef8 2185
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2186 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control
2187 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
2188 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only
2189 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only
16290246 2190 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only
fcb71f6f
FC
2191 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA
2192 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs.
16290246 2193
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2194 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit
2195 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default)
2196 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk
fcb71f6f 2197
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2198 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume
2199 when set.
2200 Format: <int>
2201
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2202 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma
2203 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is
4c44f309 2204 PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers
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2205 matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches
2206 the ATA ID string printed on console by libata. If
2207 the whole ID part is omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE
2208 values are used. If ID hasn't been specified yet, the
2209 configuration applies to all ports, links and devices.
2210
2211 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to
2212 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE
2213 number of 0 either selects the first device or the
2214 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not
2215 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the
2216 host link and device attached to it.
2217
2218 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long
2219 as there's no ambiguity shortcut notation is allowed.
2220 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps.
2221 The following configurations can be forced.
2222
2223 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata.
2224 Any ID with matching PORT is used.
2225
2226 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps.
2227
2228 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7].
2229 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also
2230 allowed.
2231
2232 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ.
2233
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2234 * [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
2235
05944bdf 2236 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
6dddd7a7 2237 and both resets.
05944bdf 2238
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2239 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during
2240 hot-unplug link recovery
2241
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2242 * dump_id: dump IDENTIFY data.
2243
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2244 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support
2245
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RJ
2246 * disable: Disable this device.
2247
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TH
2248 If there are multiple matching configurations changing
2249 the same attribute, the last one is used.
2250
95f72d1e 2251 memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
7c4be253 2252
1da177e4 2253 load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
e7751617 2254 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 2255
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2256 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period.
2257 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2258
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2259 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port.
2260 Format: <integer>
2261
2262 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value.
2263 Format: <integer>
2264
2265 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port.
2266 Format: <integer>
1da177e4 2267
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2268 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
2269 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
2270 Defaults to being automatically set based on the
2271 number of online CPUs.
2272
2273 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL]
2274 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads.
2275
2276 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
2277 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
2278
2279 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
2280 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or
2281 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
2282
2283 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
2284 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling
2285 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle
2286 mode during the locktorture test.
2287
2288 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
2289 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
2290 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
2291
2292 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
2293 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
2294
2295 locktorture.stutter= [KNL]
2296 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example,
2297 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for
2298 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on.
2299 This tests the locking primitive's ability to
2300 transition abruptly to and from idle.
2301
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2302 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL]
2303 Specify the locking implementation to test.
2304
2305 locktorture.verbose= [KNL]
2306 Enable additional printk() statements.
2307
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2308 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver
2309 Format: <irq>
2310
2311 loglevel= All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
2312 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
2313 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
2314 loglevels are defined as follows:
2315
2316 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable
2317 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately
2318 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions
2319 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions
2320 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions
2321 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition
2322 6 (KERN_INFO) informational
2323 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages
2324
c756d08a 2325 log_buf_len=n[KMG] Sets the size of the printk ring buffer,
23b2899f
LR
2326 in bytes. n must be a power of two and greater
2327 than the minimal size. The minimal size is defined
2328 by LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There is
2329 also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config parameter
2330 that allows to increase the default size depending on
2331 the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig for more details.
1da177e4 2332
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2333 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo.
2334 This may be used to provide more screen space for
2335 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging
2336 kernel boot problems.
2337
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LT
2338 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g,
2339 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses
2340 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the
2341 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be
2342 specified in addition to the ports) causes
2343 attached printers to be reset. Using
2344 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports
2345 to associate lp devices with, starting with
2346 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip
2347 that lp device, or a parport name such as
2348 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a
2349 port specification list means that device IDs
2350 from each port should be examined, to see if
2351 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if
2352 so, the driver will manage that printer.
2353 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c.
2354
2355 lpj=n [KNL]
2356 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding
2357 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per
2358 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine
2359 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal
2360 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that
2361 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs,
2362 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need
2363 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value
2364 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to
2365 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although
2366 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your
2367 hardware.
2368
2369 ltpc= [NET]
2370 Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>
2371
9b8c7c14
KC
2372 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output.
2373
79f7865d
KC
2374 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
2375 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
89a9684e 2376 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
79f7865d 2377
16290246 2378 machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
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2379 (machvec) in a generic kernel.
2380 Example: machvec=hpzx1_swiotlb
1da177e4 2381
3209e70e
WZ
2382 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between different
2383 yeeloong laptop.
2384 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch
2385
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2386 max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater
2387 than or equal to this physical address is ignored.
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LT
2388
2389 maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
7c142bfe
BH
2390 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits
2391 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after
2392 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing
2393 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus
2394 only takes effect during system bootup.
2395 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp",
2396 which also disables the IO APIC.
1da177e4 2397
d134b00b
KS
2398 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get
2399 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default
2400 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead
2401 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop
2402 devices can be requested on-demand with the
2403 /dev/loop-control interface.
2b2c3750 2404
cd4f0ef7 2405 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception
1da177e4 2406
cb1aaebe 2407 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
909dd324 2408
1da177e4 2409 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level
e52347bd 2410 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
a9913044 2411
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LT
2412 mdacon= [MDA]
2413 Format: <first>,<last>
2414 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA.
a9913044 2415
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TG
2416 mds= [X86,INTEL]
2417 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
2418 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
2419
2420 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU
2421 internal buffers which can forward information to a
2422 disclosure gadget under certain conditions.
2423
2424 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively
2425 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel
2426 attack, to access data to which the attacker does
2427 not have direct access.
2428
2429 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The
2430 options are:
2431
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JP
2432 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs
2433 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable
2434 SMT on vulnerable CPUs
2435 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation
bc124170
TG
2436
2437 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
2438 mds=full.
2439
5999bbe7
TG
2440 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
2441
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LT
2442 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
2443 Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
2444 to see the whole system memory or for test.
fbb97d87
WC
2445 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
2446 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
2447 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
2448 belonging to unused RAM.
1da177e4 2449
cd4f0ef7 2450 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
1da177e4
LT
2451 memory.
2452
6902aa84
PM
2453 memchunk=nn[KMG]
2454 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
2455 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
2456
6dddd7a7 2457 memhp_default_state=online/offline
86dd995d
VK
2458 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
2459 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
2460 set according to the
2461 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
2462 option.
cb1aaebe 2463 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst.
86dd995d 2464
6cececfc 2465 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
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LT
2466 E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
2467 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
2468 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss
2469 option description.
2470
2471 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
277cba1d
RD
2472 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
2473 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
8fcc9bc3
BH
2474 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG],
2475 which limits max address to nn[KMG].
2476 Multiple different regions can be specified,
2477 comma delimited.
2478 Example:
2479 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
1da177e4
LT
2480
2481 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
2482 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
277cba1d 2483 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1da177e4
LT
2484
2485 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
2486 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
277cba1d 2487 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
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PM
2488 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
2489 memmap=64K$0x18690000
2490 or
2491 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
8fcc9bc3
BH
2492 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$',
2493 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
2494 will be eaten.
1da177e4 2495
ec776ef6
CH
2496 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
2497 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
2498 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
2499 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
2500 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
2501
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JS
2502 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype>
2503 [KNL,ACPI] Convert memory within the specified region
2504 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left
2505 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>,
2506 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left
2507 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are
2508 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved,
2509 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM.
2510
9f077871
JF
2511 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
2512 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
2513 memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
2514 Setting this option will scan the memory
2515 looking for corruption. Enabling this will
2516 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel
2517 from using the memory being corrupted.
2518 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if
2519 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always
2520 affects the same memory, you can use memmap=
2521 to prevent the kernel from using that memory.
2522
2523 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86]
2524 By default it checks for corruption in the low
2525 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal
2526 use. Use this parameter to scan for
2527 corruption in more or less memory.
2528
2529 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86]
2530 By default it checks for corruption every 60
2531 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
2532 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
2533
d90fe2ac 2534 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
c64df707 2535 Format: <integer>
c64df707 2536 default : 0 <disable>
9e5f6cf5
AH
2537 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
2538 performed. Each pass selects another test
2539 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest
2540 fills the memory with this pattern, validates
2541 memory contents and reserves bad memory
2542 regions that are detected.
c64df707 2543
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TL
2544 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control
2545 Valid arguments: on, off
2546 Default (depends on kernel configuration option):
2547 on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y)
2548 off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n)
2549 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME
2550 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME
2551
2f5947df 2552 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
c262f3b9
TL
2553 for details on when memory encryption can be activated.
2554
406e7938
RW
2555 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode:
2556 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle
2557 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported)
2558 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
58e7cb9e 2559 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
406e7938 2560
1da177e4 2561 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
a405ed85 2562 See Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/meye.rst.
1da177e4 2563
8f36881b
AS
2564 mfgpt_irq= [IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
2565 Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
2566 platforms.
2567
e6c4dc6c
WT
2568 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
2569 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
2570 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
2571 problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
2572
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LT
2573 mga= [HW,DRM]
2574
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RD
2575 min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this
2576 physical address is ignored.
2577
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MP
2578 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL]
2579 Format:[0..2][b][c][t]
2580 Default: "0tb"
2581 MINI2440 configuration specification:
2582 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT
2583 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT
2584 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768)
2585 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load
2586 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left
2587 unconfigured.
2588 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be
2589 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO
2590 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the
2591 VGA shield.
2592 c - Enable the s3c camera interface.
2593 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The
2594 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream
2595 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found
2596 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
2597 http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
2598
98af8452 2599 mitigations=
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2600 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for
2601 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated,
d68be4c4
JP
2602 arch-independent options, each of which is an
2603 aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
98af8452
JP
2604
2605 off
2606 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
2607 improves system performance, but it may also
2608 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
782e69ef 2609 Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2610 kpti=0 [ARM64]
a2059825 2611 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
0336e04a 2612 nobp=0 [S390]
a111b7c0 2613 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
d68be4c4 2614 spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
782e69ef 2615 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
a111b7c0 2616 ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
d68be4c4 2617 l1tf=off [X86]
5c14068f 2618 mds=off [X86]
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JP
2619
2620 auto (default)
2621 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
2622 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for
2623 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
2624 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
2625 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
d68be4c4 2626 Equivalent to: (default behavior)
98af8452
JP
2627
2628 auto,nosmt
2629 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
2630 if needed. This is for users who always want to
2631 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
d68be4c4 2632 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86]
5c14068f 2633 mds=full,nosmt [X86]
98af8452 2634
6b74ab97
MG
2635 mminit_loglevel=
2636 [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
2637 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for
2638 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value
2639 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will
2640 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG
2641 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified.
2642
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RR
2643 module.sig_enforce
2644 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that
2645 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load.
2a039be7 2646 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
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RR
2647 is always true, so this option does nothing.
2648
be7de5f9
PB
2649 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
2650 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
2651
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LT
2652 mousedev.tap_time=
2653 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
2654 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
2655 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for
2656 touchpads working in absolute mode only).
2657 Format: <msecs>
2658 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices
2659 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2660 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices
2661 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets
2662
a5c6d650
DR
2663 movablecore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]
2664 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn%
2665 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it
2666 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable
2667 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is
2668 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the
2669 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its
2670 own is specified, the administrator must be careful
0cb55ad2
RD
2671 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
2672 is not too small.
2673
f70029bb
MH
2674 movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
2675 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
2676 of such nodes will be usable only for movable
2677 allocations which rules out almost all kernel
2678 allocations. Use with caution!
c5320926 2679
1da177e4
LT
2680 MTD_Partition= [MTD]
2681 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
2682
a9913044
RD
2683 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format:
2684 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
1da177e4
LT
2685
2686 mtdparts= [MTD]
c8facbb6 2687 See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
1da177e4 2688
4e89a2d8
WS
2689 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
2690 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
2691 at a time.
2692
5988af23
RH
2693 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration
2694
2695 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock]
2696
2697 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND.
2698 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks.
2699 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked.
2700 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed.
2701 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status.
2702
9db829f4
BD
2703 mtdset= [ARM]
2704 ARM/S3C2412 JIVE boot control
2705
2706 See arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/mach-jive.c
2707
1da177e4 2708 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates=
a9913044
RD
2709 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates
2710 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')
1da177e4 2711
0cb55ad2 2712 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
19f59460 2713 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
0cb55ad2
RD
2714 that could hold holes aka. UC entries.
2715
2716 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
2717 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block.
2718 Default is 1.
2719 Large value could prevent small alignment from
2720 using up MTRRs.
2721
2722 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86]
2723 Format: <integer>
2724 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number
2725 Default : 1
2726 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number.
2727 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more.
2728
1da177e4
LT
2729 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card
2730
1da177e4
LT
2731 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters
2732 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name>
2733 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean
2734 something different and driver-specific.
a9913044
RD
2735 This usage is only documented in each driver source
2736 file if at all.
2737
58401572
KPO
2738 nf_conntrack.acct=
2739 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
2740 0 to disable accounting
2741 1 to enable accounting
d70a011d 2742 Default value is 0.
58401572 2743
306a0753 2744 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
dc7a0816 2745 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4
LT
2746
2747 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
dc7a0816 2748 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
1da177e4 2749
306a0753
CL
2750 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
2751 See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
2752
5405fc44
TM
2753 nfs.callback_nr_threads=
2754 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
2755 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback
2756 requests.
2757
a72b4422
TM
2758 nfs.callback_tcpport=
2759 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback
2760 channel should listen.
2761
e571cbf1
TM
2762 nfs.cache_getent=
2763 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used
2764 to update the NFS client cache entries.
2765
2766 nfs.cache_getent_timeout=
2767 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to
2768 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed.
2769
58df095b
TM
2770 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout=
2771 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache
2772 entries.
2773
f43bf0be
TM
2774 nfs.enable_ino64=
2775 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers.
2776 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode
2777 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead
2778 of returning the full 64-bit number.
2779 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers.
2780
5405fc44
TM
2781 nfs.max_session_cb_slots=
2782 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session
2783 slots the client will assign to the callback
2784 channel. This determines the maximum number of
2785 callbacks the client will process in parallel for
2786 a particular server.
2787
ef159e91
TM
2788 nfs.max_session_slots=
2789 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots
2790 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server.
2791 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests
2792 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server.
2793 Note that there is little point in setting this
2794 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit.
2795
b064eca2 2796 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
074b1d12
TM
2797 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option
2798 ensures that both the RPC level authentication
2799 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use
2800 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the
2801 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is
2802 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from
2803 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier.
2804 Servers that do not support this mode of operation
2805 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall
2806 back to using the idmapper.
2807 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'.
6f2ea7f2
CL
2808 nfs.nfs4_unique_id=
2809 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident-
2810 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into
2811 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a
2812 UUID that is generated at system install time.
b064eca2 2813
db8ac8ba
WAA
2814 nfs.send_implementation_id =
2815 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification
2816 information in exchange_id requests.
2817 If zero, no implementation identification information
2818 will be sent.
2819 The default is to send the implementation identification
2820 information.
e52347bd 2821
f6de7a39
TM
2822 nfs.recover_lost_locks =
2823 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due
2824 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that
2825 doing this risks data corruption, since there are
2826 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged
2827 after the locks are lost.
2828 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of
2829 attempting to recover these locks, then set this
2830 parameter to '1'.
2831 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel
2832 not to attempt recovery of lost locks.
db8ac8ba 2833
bbf58bf3
TM
2834 nfs4.layoutstats_timer =
2835 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends
2836 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server.
2837
2838 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use
2839 whatever value is the default set by the layout
2840 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval
2841 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions.
2842
e9541ce8
BF
2843 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping=
2844 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4
2845 server will return only numeric uids and gids to
2846 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids
2847 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease
2848 migration from NFSv2/v3.
db8ac8ba 2849
c0c74acb 2850 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take
e7ba176b
HS
2851 when a NMI is triggered.
2852 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
2853
6cececfc 2854 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
fef2c9bc 2855 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
195daf66 2856 Valid num: 0 or 1
334bb79c
PK
2857 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
2858 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
0cb55ad2 2859 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
93285c01
ZD
2860 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI
2861 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set)
2862 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors,
334bb79c 2863 please see 'nowatchdog'.
0cb55ad2
RD
2864 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
2865 need the box quickly up again.
1da177e4 2866
d22881dc
SW
2867 These settings can be accessed at runtime via
2868 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
2869
bff38771
AV
2870 netpoll.carrier_timeout=
2871 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that
2872 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll
2873 waits 4 seconds.
2874
cd4f0ef7 2875 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths
1da177e4
LT
2876 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
2877 is present.
2878
372fddf7
KS
2879 no5lvl [X86-64] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces
2880 kernel to use 4-level paging instead.
2881
0cb55ad2
RD
2882 no_console_suspend
2883 [HW] Never suspend the console
2884 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and
2885 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging
2886 messages can reach various consoles while the rest
2887 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while
2888 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
2889 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
2890 to work with serial and VGA consoles.
134620f7
YZ
2891 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
2892 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
2893 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
2894 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
2895 turn on/off it dynamically.
0cb55ad2 2896
c6c40533
KS
2897 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
2898 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
2899 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
2900 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
2901 without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
2902 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
2903 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
2904 data will be no longer available. This parameter
2905 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
2906 is set.
2907
c1aee215
CL
2908 noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
2909 caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
2910 but will impact performance.
3395ee05 2911
a9913044
RD
2912 noalign [KNL,ARM]
2913
686140a1
VG
2914 noaltinstr [S390] Disables alternative instructions patching
2915 (CPU alternatives feature).
2916
1da177e4
LT
2917 noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any
2918 IOAPICs that may be present in the system.
2919
5091faa4
MG
2920 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation.
2921
1da177e4
LT
2922 nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem
2923 on "Classic" PPC cores.
2924
2925 nocache [ARM]
a9913044 2926
0cb55ad2
RD
2927 noclflush [BUGS=X86] Don't use the CLFLUSH instruction
2928
163ecdff
SN
2929 nodelayacct [KNL] Disable per-task delay accounting
2930
6902aa84
PM
2931 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time.
2932
b2e0a54a 2933 noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
8b2cb7a8 2934
1da177e4
LT
2935 noexec [IA-64]
2936
6cececfc 2937 noexec [X86]
f5a1b191 2938 On X86-32 available only on PAE configured kernels.
1da177e4 2939 noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
f5a1b191
JS
2940 noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
2941
de78a9c4 2942 nosmap [X86,PPC]
52b6179a
PA
2943 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
2944 even if it is supported by processor.
2945
0fb1c25a 2946 nosmep [X86,PPC]
52b6179a 2947 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention)
de5397ad
FY
2948 even if it is supported by processor.
2949
f5a1b191
JS
2950 noexec32 [X86-64]
2951 This affects only 32-bit executables.
2952 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
2953 read doesn't imply executable mappings
2954 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
2955 read implies executable mappings
1da177e4 2956
fab43ef4 2957 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
6902aa84 2958
cd4f0ef7 2959 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
4f886511
CE
2960 register save and restore. The kernel will only save
2961 legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
1da177e4 2962
d909f910 2963 nohugeiomap [KNL,x86,PPC] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
0ddab1d2 2964
52c48c51
SS
2965 nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
2966 Equivalent to smt=1.
2967
05736e4a 2968 [KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
506a66f3
TG
2969 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
2970 via the sysfs control file.
5e2d059b 2971
a2059825
JP
2972 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1
2973 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are
2974 possible in the system.
05736e4a 2975
e5ce5e72
JL
2976 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
2977 the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
2978 vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
2979 option.
da285121 2980
24f7fc83
KRW
2981 nospec_store_bypass_disable
2982 [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
2983
0c752a93
SS
2984 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
2985 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
2986 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
2987
b6f42a4a
FY
2988 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended
2989 register states. The kernel will fall back to use
2990 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter,
2991 performance of saving the states is degraded because
2992 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while
2993 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems.
2994
2995 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and
2996 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted
2997 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use
2998 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states
2999 in standard form of xsave area. By using this
3000 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
3001 memory on xsaves enabled systems.
3002
01a24d2b
PZ
3003 nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
3004 wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
3005 use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
a9913044 3006
1f29fae2
SH
3007 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The
3008 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege
3009 is to be setuid root or executed by root.
3010
1da177e4
LT
3011 nohalt [IA-64] Tells the kernel not to use the power saving
3012 function PAL_HALT_LIGHT when idle. This increases
3013 power-consumption. On the positive side, it reduces
3014 interrupt wake-up latency, which may improve performance
3015 in certain environments such as networked servers or
3016 real-time systems.
3017
a6e15a39
KC
3018 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
3019
79bf2bb3
TG
3020 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks
3021 Valid arguments: on, off
3022 Default: on
3023
d94d1053 3024 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
2d13e6ca 3025 The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
c5bfece2 3026 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
a831881b 3027 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
0453b435 3028 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
f99bcb2c
PM
3029 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs
3030 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded,
3031 just as if they had also been called out in the
3032 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter.
a831881b 3033
eeee7853
PM
3034 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses.
3035
cd4f0ef7 3036 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and
1da177e4
LT
3037 disable unhandled interrupt sources.
3038
6cececfc 3039 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for
8542b200
ZA
3040 broken timer IRQ sources.
3041
1da177e4
LT
3042 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code.
3043
3044 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured
3045 initial RAM disk.
3046
03ea8155
WH
3047 nointremap [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
3048 remapping.
d1423d56 3049 [Deprecated - use intremap=off]
03ea8155 3050
1da177e4
LT
3051 nointroute [IA-64]
3052
d12a72b8
AL
3053 noinvpcid [X86] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature.
3054
16290246 3055 nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
0aa366f3 3056
9cf4c4fc
JK
3057 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
3058
fd10cde9
GN
3059 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
3060 fault handling.
3061
80e9a4f2
AM
3062 no-vmw-sched-clock
3063 [X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
3064 clock and use the default one.
3065
6dddd7a7 3066 no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
d910f5c1
GC
3067 steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
3068 behaviour
3069
cd4f0ef7 3070 nolapic [X86-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC.
1da177e4 3071
cd4f0ef7 3072 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC] Do not use the local APIC timer.
ad62ca2b 3073
1da177e4 3074 noltlbs [PPC] Do not use large page/tlb entries for kernel
f15eea66 3075 lowmem mapping on PPC40x and PPC8xx
1da177e4 3076
312f1f01
H
3077 nomca [IA-64] Disable machine check abort handling
3078
13696e0a 3079 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception
abe37e5a 3080
83d7384f
AS
3081 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose
3082 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines).
3083
bda62633
DZ
3084 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to
3085 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
3086 irq.
3087
02608bef
DY
3088 nomodule Disable module load
3089
016ddd9b
JK
3090 nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
3091 pagetables) support.
3092
0790c9aa
AL
3093 nopcid [X86-64] Disable the PCID cpu feature.
3094
0cb55ad2
RD
3095 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to
3096 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
3097
cd4f0ef7 3098 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
b7fb4af0
JF
3099 with UP alternatives
3100
7a5091d5
PA
3101 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
3102 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
3103 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
3104 available to user space applications.
49d859d7 3105
a9913044
RD
3106 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
3107 space.
3108
1da177e4
LT
3109 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
3110 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille
3111 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany).
3112
3113 nosbagart [IA-64]
3114
cd4f0ef7 3115 nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support.
4f886511 3116
61ec7567
LB
3117 nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel,
3118 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0".
1da177e4 3119
97842216
DJ
3120 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
3121
1da177e4
LT
3122 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
3123
195daf66 3124 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
6dddd7a7 3125 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
58687acb 3126
1da177e4 3127 nowb [ARM]
a9913044 3128
2b2fd87a
WH
3129 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC] Do not enable x2APIC mode.
3130
f78cff48
FY
3131 cpu0_hotplug [X86] Turn on CPU0 hotplug feature when
3132 CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is off.
3133 Some features depend on CPU0. Known dependencies are:
3134 1. Resume from suspend/hibernate depends on CPU0.
3135 Suspend/hibernate will fail if CPU0 is offline and you
3136 need to online CPU0 before suspend/hibernate.
3137 2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be
3138 removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
3139 It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some
3140 machines although I haven't seen such issues so far
3141 after CPU0 is offline on a few tested machines.
3142 If the dependencies are under your control, you can
3143 turn on cpu0_hotplug.
3144
6dddd7a7 3145 nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
35b55ef2
NC
3146 This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
3147 cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
3148 without interruptions, before HW switches it.
3149 The actual maximum duration is 16 times this
3150 parameter's value.
3151 Format: integer between 1 and 255
3152 Default: 255
3153
16290246 3154 nptcg= [IA-64] Override max number of concurrent global TLB
a6c75b86
FY
3155 purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
3156 SAL PALO.
3157
2b633e3f
YL
3158 nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
3159 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to
7c142bfe
BH
3160 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the
3161 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in
3162 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches
3163 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu
3164 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu
3165 hot plugging.
2b633e3f 3166
0cb55ad2
RD
3167 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
3168
1a687c2e
MG
3169 numa_balancing= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable automatic NUMA balancing.
3170 Allowed values are enable and disable
3171
f0c0b2b8 3172 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA.
c9bff3ee 3173 'node', 'default' can be specified
f0c0b2b8 3174 This can be set from sysctl after boot.
57043247 3175 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
f0c0b2b8 3176
7c4be253
RD
3177 ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
3178 See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
3179 info.
3180
3ef0e1f8
AS
3181 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
3182 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
3183 command is not properly ACKed, override the length
3184 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while
3185 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high
3186 interrupts *may* be lost!
3187
15ac7afe
TL
3188 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing.
3189 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>...
3190 For example, to override I2C bus2:
3191 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
3192
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LT
3193 oprofile.timer= [HW]
3194 Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
3195
7e4e0bd5
RR
3196 oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type
3197 This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
3198 userland or if you want common events.
8d7ff4f2
RR
3199 Format: { arch_perfmon }
3200 arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
7e4e0bd5
RR
3201 perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
3202 CPU specific event set.
159a80b2
RR
3203 timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
3204 timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
3205 for generic hr timer mode)
1dcdb5a9 3206
44a4dcf7
RD
3207 oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
3208 process, but there is a small probability of
3209 deadlocking the machine.
d404ab0a
OH
3210 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
3211 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
3212
e900a918
DW
3213 page_alloc.shuffle=
3214 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
3215 should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
3216 be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
3217 running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
3218 cache, and this parameter can be used to
3219 override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
3220 can be read from sysfs at:
3221 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
3222
48c96a36
JK
3223 page_owner= [KNL] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
3224 Storage of the information about who allocated
3225 each page is disabled in default. With this switch,
3226 we can turn it on.
3227 on: enable the feature
3228
8823b1db 3229 page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
8c9a134c
KC
3230 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with
3231 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y.
3232 off: turn off poisoning (default)
8823b1db
LA
3233 on: turn on poisoning
3234
44a4dcf7 3235 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
4302fbc8
HD
3236 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
3237 timeout = 0: wait forever
3238 timeout < 0: reboot immediately
1da177e4
LT
3239 Format: <timeout>
3240
d999bd93
FT
3241 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens.
3242 User can chose combination of the following bits:
3243 bit 0: print all tasks info
3244 bit 1: print system memory info
3245 bit 2: print timer info
3246 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on
3247 bit 4: print ftrace buffer
de6da1e8 3248 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer
d999bd93 3249
9e3961a0
PB
3250 panic_on_warn panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump
3251 on a WARN().
3252
f06e5153
MH
3253 crash_kexec_post_notifiers
3254 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
3255 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
3256 succeeds in any situation.
3257 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
3258 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
3259 kernel more unstable.
3260
1da177e4
LT
3261 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
3262 connected to, default is 0.
3263 Format: <parport#>
3264 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation,
3265 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT).
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RD
3266 Format: <mode>
3267
3268 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables.
3269 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] }
3270 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any
3271 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to
3272 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of
3273 possible conflicts). You can specify the base
3274 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA
3275 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected
3276 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo'
3277 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected).
3278 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they
3279 are specified on the command line, starting
3280 with parport0.
3281
3282 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT]
3283 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in
3284 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos
3285 computer where firmware has no options for setting
3286 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp.
3287 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips.
1da177e4
LT
3288 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp]
3289
dd287796
AM
3290 pause_on_oops=
3291 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for
3292 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
3293 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.
3294
1da177e4
LT
3295 pcbit= [HW,ISDN]
3296
3297 pcd. [PARIDE]
3298 See header of drivers/block/paride/pcd.c.
e7751617 3299 See also Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3300
07d8d7e5
LG
3301 pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options.
3302
3303 Some options herein operate on a specific device
3304 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are
3305 specified in one of the following formats:
3306
45db3370 3307 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]*
07d8d7e5
LG
3308 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>]
3309
3310 Note: the first format specifies a PCI
3311 bus/device/function address which may change
3312 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard
3313 firmware changes, or due to changes caused
3314 by other kernel parameters. If the
3315 domain is left unspecified, it is
45db3370
LG
3316 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path
3317 to a device through multiple device/function
3318 addresses can be specified after the base
3319 address (this is more robust against
3320 renumbering issues). The second format
07d8d7e5
LG
3321 selects devices using IDs from the
3322 configuration space which may match multiple
3323 devices in the system.
3324
11eb0e0e 3325 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel
6dddd7a7 3326 changes anything
c0115606 3327 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
cd4f0ef7 3328 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
a9913044
RD
3329 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
3330 has a non-standard PCI host bridge.
cd4f0ef7 3331 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct
a9913044
RD
3332 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this
3333 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you
3334 suspect they are caused by the BIOS.
afd8c084
BP
3335 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3336 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8,
3337 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit).
3338 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access
3339 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for
3340 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets
3341 bus number. The config space is then accessed
3342 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF).
3343 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info
3344 on the configuration access mechanisms.
7f785763
RD
3345 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is
3346 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3347 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting.
32a2eea7
JG
3348 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI
3349 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak).
6cececfc 3350 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
61be6d66 3351 Configuration
12983077
AH
3352 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable
3353 properly configured MMIO access to PCI
3354 config space on AMD family 10h CPU
309e57df
MW
3355 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
3356 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
3357 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
a9322f64
SA
3358 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks.
3359 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This
3360 should never be necessary.
9197979b
SA
3361 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the
3362 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable
3363 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs
3364 when the system masks IRQs.
41b9eb26
SA
3365 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the
3366 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to
3367 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled.
3368 The opposite of ioapicreroute.
cd4f0ef7 3369 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt
a9913044
RD
3370 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy
3371 on several machines and they hang the machine
3372 when used, but on other computers it's the only
3373 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try
3374 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate
3375 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your
3376 motherboard.
c0115606 3377 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs.
a9913044
RD
3378 Use with caution as certain devices share
3379 address decoders between ROMs and other
3380 resources.
c0115606 3381 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to
bb71ad88
GH
3382 expansion ROMs that do not already have
3383 BIOS assigned address ranges.
7bd1c365
MH
3384 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the
3385 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS.
c0115606 3386 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be
a9913044
RD
3387 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can
3388 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards
3389 this way.
c0115606 3390 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address
a9913044
RD
3391 of the PIRQ table (normally generated
3392 by the BIOS) if it is outside the
3393 F0000h-100000h range.
c0115606 3394 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be
a9913044
RD
3395 useful if the kernel is unable to find your
3396 secondary buses and you want to tell it
3397 explicitly which ones they are.
c0115606 3398 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus
a9913044
RD
3399 numbers ourselves, overriding
3400 whatever the firmware may have done.
c0115606 3401 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored
a9913044
RD
3402 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on
3403 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably
3404 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3
3405 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI
3406 IRQ routing is enabled.
c0115606 3407 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
a9913044 3408 or for PCI scanning.
7bc5e3f2
BH
3409 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information
3410 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this
3411 is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
3412 please report a bug.
3413 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
6dddd7a7 3414 If you need to use this, please report a bug.
a9913044
RD
3415 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
3416 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
3417 so this option is a temporary workaround
3418 for broken drivers that don't call it.
13a6ddb0
YL
3419 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can
3420 handle more pci cards
0637a70a
AK
3421 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning.
3422 This might help on some broken boards which
3423 machine check when some devices' config space
3424 is read. But various workarounds are disabled
3425 and some IOMMU drivers will not work.
6b4b78fe
MD
3426 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
3427 This sorting is done to get a device
3428 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels.
3429 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order.
fa238712
YW
3430 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size)
3431 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults.
3432 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value
3433 supported by all devices below the root complex.
3434 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
3435 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max
3436 Read Request Size) to the largest supported
3437 value (no larger than the MPS that the device
3438 or bus can support) for best performance.
3439 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which
3440 every device is guaranteed to support. This
3441 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between
3442 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of
3443 reduced performance. This also guarantees
3444 that hot-added devices will work.
4516a618
AN
3445 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3446 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window.
3447 The default value is 256 bytes.
3448 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3449 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory
3450 window. The default value is 64 megabytes.
32a9a682
YS
3451 resource_alignment=
3452 Format:
07d8d7e5 3453 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...]
32a9a682 3454 Specifies alignment and device to reassign
07d8d7e5
LG
3455 aligned memory resources. How to
3456 specify the device is described above.
32a9a682
YS
3457 If <order of align> is not specified,
3458 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
3459 PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
3460 windows need to be expanded.
8b078c60
MK
3461 To specify the alignment for several
3462 instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
3463 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
3464 specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
43c16408
AP
3465 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
3466 end-to-end CRC checking).
3467 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the
3468 the default.
3469 off: Turn ECRC off
3470 on: Turn ECRC on.
8c8803c5
YW
3471 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3472 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window.
3473 Default size is 256 bytes.
3474 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
3475 reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
3476 Default size is 2 megabytes.
e16b4660
KB
3477 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
3478 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
3479 Default is 1.
b55438fd
YL
3480 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
3481 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
3482 accommodate resources required by all child
3483 devices.
3484 off: Turn realloc off
3485 on: Turn realloc on
3486 realloc same as realloc=on
6748dcc2 3487 noari do not use PCIe ARI.
cef74409
GK
3488 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU]
3489 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB).
284f5f9d
BH
3490 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we
3491 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
3492 port.
f32ab754
UCCB
3493 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
3494 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
3495 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
3496 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
3497 conflict with unreported devices), so this
3498 taints the kernel.
aaca43fd
LG
3499 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...]
3500 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format
3501 specified above) separated by semicolons.
3502 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS
3503 redirect capabilities forced off which will
3504 allow P2P traffic between devices through
3505 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note:
3506 this removes isolation between devices and
3507 may put more devices in an IOMMU group.
fbfe07d4 3508 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts.
56271303 3509 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions.
6b4b78fe 3510
e5665a45
CE
3511 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
3512 Management.
3513 off Disable ASPM.
3514 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it.
3515 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups.
3516
4c0fd764
BH
3517 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling:
3518 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug)
3519 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to
3520 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform
3521 also tries to use these services.
3522 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe
3523 hotplug).
79dd9182 3524
9d26d3a8
MW
3525 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling:
3526 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports
3527 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports
3528
c7f48656 3529 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options:
c39fae14 3530 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes
28eb5f27 3531 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services).
c7f48656 3532
1da177e4
LT
3533 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4
3534
39ac5ba5
TB
3535 pd_ignore_unused
3536 [PM]
3537 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on,
3538 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
3539 for debug and development, but should not be
3540 needed on a platform with proper driver support.
3541
1da177e4 3542 pd. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3543 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3544
3545 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at
3546 boot time.
3547 Format: { 0 | 1 }
3548 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c
3549
f58dc01b 3550 percpu_alloc= Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use.
e933a73f
TH
3551 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page".
3552 Archs may support subset or none of the selections.
3553 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each
3554 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging
3555 and performance comparison.
fa8a7094 3556
1da177e4 3557 pf. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3558 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3559
3560 pg. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3561 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3562
3563 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup
cb1aaebe 3564 See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst.
1da177e4
LT
3565
3566 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link
3567 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 }
3ba9b1b8 3568 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst.
1da177e4 3569
16290246 3570 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port.
de32a243
TG
3571 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value.
3572 e.g. pmtmr=0x508
3573
96242116
BH
3574 pnp.debug=1 [PNP]
3575 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the
3576 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time
3577 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show
3578 current resource usage; turning this on also shows
3579 possible settings and some assignment information.
97ef062b 3580
1da177e4
LT
3581 pnpacpi= [ACPI]
3582 { off }
3583
3584 pnpbios= [ISAPNP]
3585 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res }
3586
3587 pnp_reserve_irq=
3588 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration
3589
3590 pnp_reserve_dma=
3591 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration
3592
3593 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration
a9913044 3594 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size).
1da177e4
LT
3595
3596 pnp_reserve_mem=
a9913044
RD
3597 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the
3598 autoconfiguration.
1da177e4
LT
3599 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
3600
4af94f39
RD
3601 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module
3602 Default is 21.
3603 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports
3604 may be specified.
3605 Format: <port>,<port>....
3606
c3cbd075
BS
3607 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features.
3608 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the
3609 platform machine description specific power_save
3610 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces
3611 execution priority.
3612
3eb5d588
AB
3613 ppc_strict_facility_enable
3614 [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point,
3615 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically
3616 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()).
3617 There is some performance impact when enabling this.
3618
07fd1761
CB
3619 ppc_tm= [PPC]
3620 Format: {"off"}
3621 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory
3622
45807a1d
IM
3623 print-fatal-signals=
3624 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
f84d49b2
NO
3625
3626 If enabled, warn about various signal handling
3627 related application anomalies: too many signals,
3628 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a
3629 coredump - etc.
3630
3631 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow,
3632 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited".
3633
45807a1d
IM
3634 default: off.
3635
c22ab332
MG
3636 printk.always_kmsg_dump=
3637 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or
3638 panics
3639 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3640 default: disabled
3641
750afe7b
BP
3642 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit}
3643 Control writing to /dev/kmsg.
3644 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace
3645 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled
3646 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging
3647 Default: ratelimit
3648
e84845c4
RD
3649 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
3650 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable)
3651
0cb55ad2
RD
3652 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
3653 Limit processor to maximum C-state
3654 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit.
3655
3656 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI]
3657 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states,
3658 instead using the legacy FADT method
3659
1da177e4 3660 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
e7e61fc0
RD
3661 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number>
3662 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm"
3663 [defaults to kernel profiling]
a9913044 3664 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
b3da2a73
MG
3665 Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs).
3666 Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
c0fe2e69 3667 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits.
e7e61fc0
RD
3668 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
3669 statistical time based profiling.
1da177e4 3670
1da177e4
LT
3671 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk
3672 before loading.
e7751617 3673 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 3674
e0c27447
JW
3675 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
3676 tracking.
3677 Format: <bool>
3678
a9913044
RD
3679 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
3680 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
1da177e4
LT
3681 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
3682 per second.
a9913044
RD
3683 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE]
3684 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets
1da177e4
LT
3685 (0 = never).
3686 psmouse.resolution=
3687 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi.
3688 psmouse.smartscroll=
a9913044 3689 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
1da177e4
LT
3690 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
3691
dee28e72
MG
3692 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
3693
1da177e4 3694 pt. [PARIDE]
e7751617 3695 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst.
1da177e4 3696
01c9b17b
DH
3697 pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
3698 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
3699 removes hardening, but improves performance of
3700 system calls and interrupts.
3701
3702 on - unconditionally enable
3703 off - unconditionally disable
3704 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
3705 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
3706
3707 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
3708
3709 nopti [X86_64]
3710 Equivalent to pti=off
41f4c20b 3711
dc8c8587
KS
3712 pty.legacy_count=
3713 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
3714 default number.
3715
7d2c502f 3716 quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages
a9913044 3717
1da177e4
LT
3718 r128= [HW,DRM]
3719
3720 raid= [HW,RAID]
e52347bd 3721 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst.
1da177e4 3722
1da177e4 3723 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
e7751617 3724 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst.
1da177e4 3725
9b254366
KC
3726 random.trust_cpu={on,off}
3727 [KNL] Enable or disable trusting the use of the
3728 CPU's random number generator (if available) to
3729 fully seed the kernel's CRNG. Default is controlled
3730 by CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.
3731
011d8261
BP
3732 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options
3733
3734 cec_disable [X86]
3735 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector,
3736 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text.
3737
4102adab 3738 rcu_nocbs= [KNL]
da8739f2
PM
3739 The argument is a cpu list, as described above,
3740 except that the string "all" can be used to
3741 specify every CPU on the system.
2d13e6ca 3742
3fbfbf7a
PM
3743 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
3744 the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
77095901
PM
3745 Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will be
3746 offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for that
3747 purpose, where "x" is "p" for RCU-preempt, and
3748 "s" for RCU-sched, and "N" is the CPU number.
3749 This reduces OS jitter on the offloaded CPUs,
3750 which can be useful for HPC and real-time
3751 workloads. It can also improve energy efficiency
3752 for asymmetric multiprocessors.
3fbfbf7a 3753
4102adab 3754 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL]
3fbfbf7a
PM
3755 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs
3756 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly
3757 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads,
3758 make these kthreads poll for callbacks.
3759 This improves the real-time response for the
3760 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to
3761 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades
3762 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads
3763 periodically wake up to do the polling.
3764
4102adab 3765 rcutree.blimit= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3766 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
3767 process in one batch.
21a1ea9e 3768
a3dc2948
PM
3769 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL]
3770 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree
3771 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic
3772 purposes, to verify correct tree setup.
3773
0f41c0dd
PM
3774 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL]
3775 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3776 RCU grace-period cleanup.
0f41c0dd 3777
37745d28
PM
3778 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
3779 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
90040c9e 3780 RCU grace-period initialization.
0f41c0dd
PM
3781
3782 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL]
3783 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
3784 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is,
3785 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
90040c9e 3786 the rcu_node combining tree.
37745d28 3787
48d07c04
SAS
3788 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
3789 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
3790 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
3791 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
3792 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
3793
7fa27001
PM
3794 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
3795 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
3796 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
3797 possibly be useful for architectures having high
3798 cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
37745d28 3799
4102adab 3800 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
ee968ac6
PM
3801 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
3802 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very
3803 large systems, which will choose the value 64,
3804 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
3805 latencies, which will choose a value aligned
3806 with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
f885b7f2 3807
4102adab 3808 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3809 Set delay from grace-period initialization to
3810 first attempt to force quiescent states.
3811 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
3812 and maximum value is HZ.
3813
4102adab 3814 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3815 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
3816 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
3817 value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
3818
1a4762b9
PM
3819 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
3820 Set required age in jiffies for a
3821 given grace period before RCU starts
3822 soliciting quiescent-state help from
3823 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched().
3824 If not specified, the kernel will calculate
3825 a value based on the most recent settings
3826 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs
3827 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs.
3828 This calculated value may be viewed in
3829 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set
3830 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully
3831 overwritten.
3832
21871d7e 3833 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
d2af1ad7
PM
3834 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
3835 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
3836 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
3837 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
3838 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
3839 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
3840 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
3841 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
3842 the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
21871d7e 3843
fbce7497
PM
3844 rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
3845 Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
3846 defaults to the square root of the number of
3847 CPUs. Larger numbers reduces the wakeup overhead
3848 on the per-CPU grace-period kthreads, but increases
3849 that same overhead on each group's leader.
3850
4102adab 3851 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL]
97e63f0c
PM
3852 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which
3853 batch limiting is disabled.
21a1ea9e 3854
4102adab 3855 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL]
24aaef8d
RD
3856 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
3857 batch limiting is re-enabled.
21a1ea9e 3858
4102adab 3859 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3860 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3861 RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
d40011f6 3862
4102adab 3863 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL]
c0f4dfd4
PM
3864 Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
3865 only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
3866 Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
3867 prove do nothing more than free memory.
d40011f6 3868
e3c50dfb
PM
3869 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL]
3870 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra
3871 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than
3872 it should at force-quiescent-state time.
3873 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a
3874 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump().
3875
2ccaff10
PM
3876 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL]
3877 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's
3878 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining
3879 why a new grace period has not yet started.
3880
881ed593
PM
3881 rcuperf.gp_async= [KNL]
3882 Measure performance of asynchronous
3883 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu().
3884
3885 rcuperf.gp_async_max= [KNL]
3886 Specify the maximum number of outstanding
3887 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer
3888 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the
3889 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow
3890 previously posted callbacks to drain.
3891
bdea9e34
PM
3892 rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL]
3893 Measure performance of expedited synchronous
3894 grace-period primitives.
3895
df37e66b
PM
3896 rcuperf.holdoff= [KNL]
3897 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of
3898 this parameter is to delay the start of the
3899 test until boot completes in order to avoid
3900 interference.
3901
bdea9e34
PM
3902 rcuperf.nreaders= [KNL]
3903 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3904 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3905 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again
3906 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3907 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
3908 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects
3909 a single reader.
3910
3911 rcuperf.nwriters= [KNL]
3912 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate
3913 the same as for rcuperf.nreaders.
3914 N, where N is the number of CPUs
3915
820687a7
PM
3916 rcuperf.perf_type= [KNL]
3917 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
3918
bdea9e34
PM
3919 rcuperf.shutdown= [KNL]
3920 Shut the system down after performance tests
3921 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated
3922 testing.
3923
bdea9e34
PM
3924 rcuperf.verbose= [KNL]
3925 Enable additional printk() statements.
3926
820687a7
PM
3927 rcuperf.writer_holdoff= [KNL]
3928 Write-side holdoff between grace periods,
3929 in microseconds. The default of zero says
3930 no holdoff.
3931
4102adab 3932 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3933 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts
3934 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3935
4102adab 3936 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3937 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts
3938 in microseconds.
dabb8aa9 3939
4102adab 3940 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3941 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts
3942 in seconds.
3943
ed8f6fb2
PM
3944 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL]
3945 Enable RCU grace-period forward-progress testing
3946 for the types of RCU supporting this notion.
3947
3948 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL]
3949 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning
3950 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing.
3951
3952 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL]
3953 Number of seconds to wait between successive
3954 forward-progress tests.
3955
3956 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL]
3957 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for
3958 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress
3959 testing.
3960
21b05de4
PM
3961 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL]
3962 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side
3963 primitives, if available.
dabb8aa9 3964
4102adab 3965 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL]
21b05de4 3966 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available.
4102adab
PM
3967
3968 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL]
21b05de4
PM
3969 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous
3970 update-side primitives, if available.
3971
3972 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL]
3973 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous
3974 update-side primitives, if available. If all
3975 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=,
3976 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync=
3977 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted
3978 they are all non-zero.
dabb8aa9 3979
4102adab 3980 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3981 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing.
3982
4102adab 3983 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3984 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just
3985 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual
3986 test, hence the "fake".
3987
4102adab 3988 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL]
3838cc18
PM
3989 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects
3990 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value
3991 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again
3992 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N
3993 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on.
dabb8aa9 3994
4102adab
PM
3995 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL]
3996 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing.
3997
3998 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
3999 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing.
4000
4102adab 4001 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL]
028be12b
PM
4002 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations,
4003 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing.
dabb8aa9 4004
4102adab 4005 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4006 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks
4007 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode
4008 during the rcutorture test.
4009
4102adab 4010 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4011 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This
4012 is useful for hands-off automated testing.
4013
4102adab 4014 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4015 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall
4016 warnings, zero to disable.
4017
4102adab 4018 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4019 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall.
4020
2b1516e5
PM
4021 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL]
4022 Disable interrupts while stalling if set.
4023
4102adab 4024 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4025 Time (s) between statistics printk()s.
4026
4102adab 4027 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4028 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying
4029 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds,
4030 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's
4031 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle.
4032
4102adab 4033 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4034 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes.
4035 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation
4036 under test support RCU priority boosting.
4037
4102adab 4038 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4039 Duration (s) of each individual boost test.
4040
4102adab 4041 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4042 Interval (s) between each boost test.
4043
4102adab 4044 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4045 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the
4046 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter.
4047
4102adab 4048 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4049 Specify the RCU implementation to test.
4050
4102adab 4051 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL]
dabb8aa9
PM
4052 Enable additional printk() statements.
4053
5a9be7c6
PM
4054 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL]
4055 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4056
4057 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4058 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
4059
4102adab
PM
4060 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
4061 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
4062 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
4063 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency,
4064 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade
4065 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency.
79cfea02 4066 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4067
5a9be7c6
PM
4068 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL]
4069 Use only normal grace-period primitives,
4070 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of
4071 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves
79cfea02
PM
4072 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and
4073 energy efficiency, but can expose users to
4074 increased grace-period latency. This parameter
4075 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on
4076 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
4102adab 4077
3e42ec1a
PM
4078 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL]
4079 Once boot has completed (that is, after
4080 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use
79cfea02
PM
4081 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect
4082 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels.
3e42ec1a 4083
52db30ab
PM
4084 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL]
4085 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall warning
4086 messages. Disable with a value less than or equal
4087 to zero.
4088
74860fee
PK
4089 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL]
4090 Run the RCU early boot self tests
4091
ffdfc409
OJ
4092 rdinit= [KNL]
4093 Format: <full_path>
4094 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
4095 used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
4096
c49a0a80
TL
4097 rdrand= [X86]
4098 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the
4099 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects
4100 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS
4101 support, specifically around the suspend/resume
4102 path).
4103
1d9807fc
TL
4104 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
4105 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
31516de3
FY
4106 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
4107 mba.
1d9807fc
TL
4108 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
4109 rdt=cmt,!mba
4110
1b3a5d02
RH
4111 reboot= [KNL]
4112 Format (x86 or x86_64):
4113 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] \
4114 [[,]s[mp]#### \
4115 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \
4116 [[,]f[orce]
b287a25a
AK
4117 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio
4118 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic
4119 reboot only),
1b3a5d02
RH
4120 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci,
4121 reboot_force is either force or not specified,
4122 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor
4123 to be used for rebooting.
1da177e4 4124
46b6d94e
PJ
4125 relax_domain_level=
4126 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
da82c92f 4127 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst.
46b6d94e 4128
ffd2e8df
BH
4129 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory
4130 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...]
4131 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use
4132 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region
4133 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory.
1da177e4 4134
cd4f0ef7 4135 reservetop= [X86-32]
461a9aff
ZA
4136 Format: nn[KMG]
4137 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
4138 address space.
4139
9ea77bdb
PA
4140 reservelow= [X86]
4141 Format: nn[K]
4142 Set the amount of memory to reserve for BIOS at
4143 the bottom of the address space.
4144
7e96287d
VG
4145 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
4146 during initialization.
4147
a9913044
RD
4148 resume= [SWSUSP]
4149 Specify the partition device for software suspend
2df83fa4
MB
4150 Format:
4151 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>}
1da177e4 4152
ecbd0da1
RW
4153 resume_offset= [SWSUSP]
4154 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition
4155 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located,
4156 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
151f4e2b 4157 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst
ecbd0da1 4158
f126f733
BS
4159 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4160 read the resume files
4161
6f8d7022
BS
4162 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
4163 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4164 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4165
f996fc96
BS
4166 hibernate= [HIBERNATION]
4167 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image
4168 present during boot.
4169 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images.
a6e15a39 4170 no Disable hibernation and resume.
4c0b6c10
RW
4171 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration
4172 (that will set all pages holding image data
4173 during restoration read-only).
f996fc96 4174
0a7b35cb
MN
4175 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction
4176
0efbb786
AC
4177 rfkill.default_state=
4178 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm,
4179 etc. communication is blocked by default.
4180 1 Unblocked.
4181
4182 rfkill.master_switch_mode=
4183 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing.
4184 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4185 blocked and the previous configuration.
4186 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything
4187 blocked and everything unblocked.
4188
1da177e4
LT
4189 rhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4190 Set number of hash buckets for route cache
4191
e16fd002
GA
4192 ring3mwait=disable
4193 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported
4194 CPUs.
4195
1da177e4
LT
4196 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
4197
d2aa1aca
KC
4198 rodata= [KNL]
4199 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
4200 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
4201
605df8af
HS
4202 rockchip.usb_uart
4203 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port
4204 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the
4205 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb
4206 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
4207
1da177e4 4208 root= [KNL] Root filesystem
f2d34fd9 4209 See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
1da177e4
LT
4210
4211 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
4212 mount the root filesystem
4213
4214 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string
4215
4216 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type
4217
cc1ed754
PO
4218 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
4219 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
4220 (e.g. USB and MMC devices).
4221
5c71d618
RT
4222 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address]
4223 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block.
4224 Memory area to be used by remote processor image,
4225 managed by CMA.
4226
1da177e4
LT
4227 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot
4228
4229 S [KNL] Run init in single mode
4230
c60d1ae4
GS
4231 s390_iommu= [HW,S390]
4232 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode
4233 strict
4234 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result in
4235 an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before reuse,
4236 which is faster.
4237
1da177e4
LT
4238 sa1100ir [NET]
4239 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c.
4240
1da177e4 4241 sbni= [NET] Granch SBNI12 leased line adapter
a9913044 4242
f6630114
MT
4243 sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages.
4244
cb251765
MG
4245 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics.
4246 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature
4247 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
4248 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
f6630114 4249
5307c955
MG
4250 skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
4251 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
4252 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.
4253 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4254 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1"
4255 1 -- enable.
4256 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
4257 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
4258
89a9684e
KC
4259 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
4260 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
4261 "lsm=" parameter.
0cb55ad2
RD
4262
4263 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
1da177e4
LT
4264 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4265 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
4266 0 -- disable.
4267 1 -- enable.
4268 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4269 If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
4270 later to disable prior to initial policy load.
4271
c1c124e9
JJ
4272 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time
4273 Format: { "0" | "1" }
4274 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text
4275 0 -- disable.
4276 1 -- enable.
4277 Default value is set via kernel config option.
4278
cd4f0ef7 4279 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
1da177e4 4280
1da177e4
LT
4281 shapers= [NET]
4282 Maximal number of shapers.
a9913044 4283
1da177e4
LT
4284 simeth= [IA-64]
4285 simscsi=
a9913044 4286
1da177e4
LT
4287 slram= [HW,MTD]
4288
423c929c
JK
4289 slab_nomerge [MM]
4290 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
4291 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
7660a6fd
KC
4292 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
4293 environments where the risk of heap overflows and
4294 layout control by attackers can usually be
4295 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
4296 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
4297 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
4298 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
4299 own.
ad56b738 4300 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
423c929c 4301
3df1cccd
DR
4302 slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
4303 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4304 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4305 fragmentation. Defaults to 1 for systems with
4306 more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
4307
f0630fff
CL
4308 slub_debug[=options[,slabs]] [MM, SLUB]
4309 Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
4310 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
4311 slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
4312 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
4313 last alloc / free. For more information see
ad56b738 4314 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215 4315
1663f26d
TH
4316 slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
4317 Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
4318 memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
4319 The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
4320 Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
4321 directories and files being created under
4322 /sys/kernel/slub.
4323
c1aee215 4324 slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4325 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
4326 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
4327 fragmentation. For more information see
ad56b738 4328 Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4329
4330 slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
f0630fff
CL
4331 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
4332 increase the slab order up to slub_max_order to
4333 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain
4334 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
4335 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
4336 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
ad56b738 4337 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4338
4339 slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
24775d65 4340 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
f0630fff 4341 lower than slub_max_order.
ad56b738 4342 For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
c1aee215
CL
4343
4344 slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
423c929c
JK
4345 Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
4346 See slab_nomerge for more information.
c1aee215 4347
1da177e4
LT
4348 smart2= [HW]
4349 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]]
4350
d0d4f69b
BH
4351 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices
4352 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port
4353 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port
4354 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port
4355 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line
4356 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel
4357 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type:
4358 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select)
4359 1: Fast pin select (default)
4360 2: ATC IRMode
4361
52c48c51
SS
4362 smt [KNL,S390] Set the maximum number of threads (logical
4363 CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems capable of
4364 symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will be capped to the
4365 actual hardware limit.
4366 Format: <integer>
4367 Default: -1 (no limit)
4368
9c44bc03
IM
4369 softlockup_panic=
4370 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics.
44a4dcf7 4371 Format: <integer>
9c44bc03 4372
3ce62385
BP
4373 A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
4374 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
4375 is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
4376 which is the respective build-time switch to that
4377 functionality.
4378
ed235875
AT
4379 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
4380 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate
4381 backtraces on all cpus.
4382 Format: <integer>
4383
1da177e4 4384 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
9e1cbede 4385 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst
1da177e4 4386
da285121
DW
4387 spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4388 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
fa1202ef
TG
4389 The default operation protects the kernel from
4390 user space attacks.
da285121 4391
fa1202ef
TG
4392 on - unconditionally enable, implies
4393 spectre_v2_user=on
4394 off - unconditionally disable, implies
4395 spectre_v2_user=off
da285121
DW
4396 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
4397 vulnerable
4398
4399 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
4400 mitigation method at run time according to the
4401 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
4402 CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
4403 compiler with which the kernel was built.
4404
fa1202ef
TG
4405 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation
4406 against user space to user space task attacks.
4407
4408 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and
4409 the user space protections.
4410
da285121
DW
4411 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
4412
4413 retpoline - replace indirect branches
4414 retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
4415 retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk
4416
4417 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4418 spectre_v2=auto.
4419
fa1202ef
TG
4420 spectre_v2_user=
4421 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
4422 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between
4423 user space tasks
4424
4425 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is
4426 enforced by spectre_v2=on
4427
4428 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is
4429 enforced by spectre_v2=off
4430
7cc765a6
TG
4431 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled,
4432 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl
4433 per thread. The mitigation control state
4434 is inherited on fork.
4435
55a97402
TG
4436 prctl,ibpb
4437 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is
4438 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4439 always when switching between different user
4440 space processes.
4441
6b3e64c2
TG
4442 seccomp
4443 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp
4444 threads will enable the mitigation unless
4445 they explicitly opt out.
4446
55a97402
TG
4447 seccomp,ibpb
4448 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is
4449 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued
4450 always when switching between different
4451 user space processes.
4452
fa1202ef
TG
4453 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on
4454 the available CPU features and vulnerability.
6b3e64c2
TG
4455
4456 Default mitigation:
4457 If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
fa1202ef
TG
4458
4459 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4460 spectre_v2_user=auto.
4461
24f7fc83
KRW
4462 spec_store_bypass_disable=
4463 [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
4464 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
4465
4466 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
4467 a common industry wide performance optimization known
4468 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
4469 to the same memory location may not be observed by
4470 later loads during speculative execution. The idea
4471 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
4472 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
4473 end of a particular speculation execution window.
4474
4475 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
4476 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
4477 example to read memory to which the attacker does not
4478 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
4479
4480 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
4481 Bypass optimization is used.
4482
6b4c1360
ME
4483 On x86 the options are:
4484
f21b53b2
KC
4485 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
4486 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
4487 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
4488 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
4489 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
4490 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
4491 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
4492 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
4493 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
4494 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
4495 for a process by default. The state of the control
4496 is inherited on fork.
4497 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
4498 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
24f7fc83 4499
f21b53b2
KC
4500 Default mitigations:
4501 X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
4502
6b4c1360
ME
4503 On powerpc the options are:
4504
4505 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding
4506 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7
4507 perform a software flush on kernel entry and
4508 exit.
4509 off - No action.
4510
4511 Not specifying this option is equivalent to
4512 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
4513
1da177e4
LT
4514 spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
4515 spia_fio_base=
4516 spia_pedr=
4517 spia_peddr=
4518
c350c008
PM
4519 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL]
4520 Specifies how frequently to check for
4521 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the
4522 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field.
4523 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel
4524 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will
4525 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits
4526 are ignored.
4527
22607d66
PM
4528 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL]
4529 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse
4530 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for
4531 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU
4532 grace period will be considered for automatic
4533 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic
4534 expediting.
4535
a43ae4df
MZ
4536 ssbd= [ARM64,HW]
4537 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control
4538
4539 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative
4540 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a
4541 firmware based mitigation, this parameter
4542 indicates how the mitigation should be used:
4543
4544 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for
4545 for both kernel and userspace
4546 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for
4547 for both kernel and userspace
4548 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the
4549 kernel, and offer a prctl interface
4550 to allow userspace to register its
4551 interest in being mitigated too.
4552
1be7107f
HD
4553 stack_guard_gap= [MM]
4554 override the default stack gap protection. The value
4555 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
4556 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks
4557 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other
4558 mapping. Default value is 256 pages.
4559
f38f1d2a
SR
4560 stacktrace [FTRACE]
4561 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up.
4562
762e1207
SR
4563 stacktrace_filter=[function-list]
4564 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer
4565 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated
4566 list of functions. This list can be changed at run
4567 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs
4568 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing
4569 and the stacktrace above is not needed.
4570
1da177e4
LT
4571 sti= [PARISC,HW]
4572 Format: <num>
4573 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
4574 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used
4575 as the initial boot-console.
4576 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4577
4578 sti_font= [HW]
4579 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c.
4580
4581 stifb= [HW]
4582 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]]
4583
cbf11071
TM
4584 sunrpc.min_resvport=
4585 sunrpc.max_resvport=
4586 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4587 SunRPC servers often require that client requests
4588 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the
4589 range 0 < portnr < 1024).
4590 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these
4591 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the
4592 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged
4593 using these two parameters to set the minimum and
4594 maximum port values.
4595
ff3ac5c3
TM
4596 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit=
4597 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4598 Limit the number of requests that the server will
4599 process in parallel from a single connection.
4600 The default value is 0 (no limit).
4601
42a7fc4a
GB
4602 sunrpc.pool_mode=
4603 [NFS]
4604 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to
4605 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs
4606 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this
4607 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving.
4608 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the
4609 NFS server is running.
4610
4611 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode
4612 automatically using heuristics
4613 global a single global pool contains all CPUs
4614 percpu one pool for each CPU
4615 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent
4616 to global on non-NUMA machines)
4617
cbf11071
TM
4618 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=
4619 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries=
4620 [NFS,SUNRPC]
4621 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous
4622 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a
4623 server. Increasing these values may allow you to
4624 improve throughput, but will also increase the
4625 amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
4626
1d4a9c17
BN
4627 suspend.pm_test_delay=
4628 [SUSPEND]
4629 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
4630 mode before resuming the system (see
4631 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
4632 is set. Default value is 5.
4633
07555ac1 4634 swapaccount=[0|1]
a42c390c
MH
4635 [KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
4636 controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable
da82c92f 4637 it if 0 is given (See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst)
a42c390c 4638
91fec0f5 4639 swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86]
fff5d992 4640 Format: { <int> | force | noforce }
91fec0f5
JK
4641 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs
4642 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they
4643 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel
fff5d992 4644 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging)
a9913044 4645
1da177e4
LT
4646 switches= [HW,M68k]
4647
e52eec13
AK
4648 sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL]
4649 Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev
4650 on older distributions. When this option is enabled
4651 very new udev will not work anymore. When this option
4652 is disabled (or CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not compiled)
4653 in older udev will not work anymore.
4654 Default depends on CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 set in
4655 the kernel configuration.
4656
5d6f647f
IM
4657 sysrq_always_enabled
4658 [KNL]
4659 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will
4660 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
4661 Useful for debugging.
4662
747029a5
FF
4663 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4664 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots.
4665 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total
4666 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics
4667 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
4668 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details.
4669
1da177e4
LT
4670 tdfx= [HW,DRM]
4671
acc82342 4672 test_suspend= [SUSPEND][,N]
77437fd4 4673 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for
acc82342
SP
4674 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze)
4675 as the system sleep state during system startup with
4676 the optional capability to repeat N number of times.
4677 The system is woken from this state using a
4678 wakeup-capable RTC alarm.
77437fd4 4679
1da177e4
LT
4680 thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4681 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection
4682
f8707ec9
LB
4683 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
4684 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
4685 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points
4686
c52a7419
LB
4687 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI]
4688 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones
22a94d79 4689 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points
c52a7419 4690
f5487145
LB
4691 thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
4692 Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
4693 critical and hot trip points.
4694
72b33ef8
LB
4695 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI]
4696 1: disable ACPI thermal control
4697
a70cdc52
LB
4698 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI]
4699 -1: disable all passive trip points
ada9cfdd
RD
4700 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
4701 value
a70cdc52 4702
730ff34d
LB
4703 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI]
4704 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
4705 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
4706 0: no polling (default)
4707
8d32a307
TG
4708 threadirqs [KNL]
4709 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those
24775d65 4710 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.
8d32a307 4711
2b1a61f0
HC
4712 topology= [S390]
4713 Format: {off | on}
4714 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu
f65e51d7
SL
4715 topology information if the hardware supports this.
4716 The scheduler will make use of this information and
2b1a61f0 4717 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
c9af3fa9 4718 Default is on.
2b1a61f0 4719
2d73bae1
NA
4720 topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
4721 Format: {off}
4722 Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
4723 topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
4724 LPAR.
4725
1da177e4
LT
4726 tp720= [HW,PS2]
4727
225a9be2
RA
4728 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
4729 Format: integer pcr id
4730 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver
4731 should extend the specified pcr with zeros,
4732 as a workaround for some chips which fail to
4733 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState.
4734 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs
4735 are saved.
4736
9d612bef 4737 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG]
3e6fb8e9 4738 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu.
631595fb 4739
020e5f85
LZ
4740 trace_event=[event-list]
4741 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
d81749ea
BN
4742 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
4743 comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
5fb94e9c 4744 also Documentation/trace/events.rst
020e5f85 4745
7bcfaf54
SR
4746 trace_options=[option-list]
4747 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
4748 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options
4749 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were
4750 to echo the option name into
4751
4752 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_options
4753
4754 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the
4755 stack trace of each event), add to the command line:
4756
4757 trace_options=stacktrace
4758
5fb94e9c 4759 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options"
7bcfaf54
SR
4760 section.
4761
0daa2302
SRRH
4762 tp_printk[FTRACE]
4763 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the
4764 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up
4765 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the
4766 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a
4767 ftrace_dump_on_oops.
4768
4769 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk,
4770 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk
4771 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the
4772 tracepoint_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect.
4773
4774 ** CAUTION **
4775
4776 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high
4777 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause
4778 the system to live lock.
4779
de7edd31
SRRH
4780 traceoff_on_warning
4781 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a
4782 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can
4783 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on"
4784 file located in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
4785
4786 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before
4787 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to
4788 be filled with content caused by the warning output.
4789
4790 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl
4791 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning
4792
fcf4d821
JK
4793 transparent_hugepage=
4794 [KNL]
4795 Format: [always|madvise|never]
4796 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
4797 with respect to transparent hugepages.
45c9a74f
MR
4798 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
4799 for more details.
fcf4d821 4800
d3b8f889 4801 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
395628ef
AK
4802 Format: <string>
4803 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
d3b8f889
JS
4804 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
4805 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
4806 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
4807 virtualized environment.
e82b8e4e
VP
4808 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
4809 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
4810 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
4811 can add overhead.
6be53520
DL
4812 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this
4813 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and
4814 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices.
0f0b7e1c
JL
4815 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used
4816 in situations with strict latency requirements (where
4817 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
4818 acceptable).
395628ef 4819
a9913044
RD
4820 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
4821 TurboGraFX parallel port interface
4822 Format:
4823 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7>
1752118d 4824 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
1da177e4 4825
b6935f8c 4826 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that
e52347bd 4827 happen after console_init() and before a proper
b6935f8c
CK
4828 console driver takes over, this boot options might
4829 help "seeing" what's going on.
4830
f86dcc5a
ED
4831 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
4832 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
4833
5f8364b7
AS
4834 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
4835 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
4836 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of
4837 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to
4838 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming.
4839 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be
4840 reported either.
4841
e3a61b0a 4842 unknown_nmi_panic
44a4dcf7 4843 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI.
e3a61b0a 4844
c4fc2342
CDH
4845 usbcore.authorized_default=
4846 [USB] Default USB device authorization:
4847 (default -1 = authorized except for wireless USB,
7bae0432
DT
4848 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized
4849 if device connected to internal port)
c4fc2342 4850
b5e795f8
AS
4851 usbcore.autosuspend=
4852 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used
4853 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This
4854 is the time required before an idle device will be
4855 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set
eaafbc3a 4856 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all.
b5e795f8 4857
fd7c519d
JK
4858 usbcore.usbfs_snoop=
4859 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off).
4860
0290cc9f
AS
4861 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max=
4862 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB
4863 (default = 65536).
4864
fd7c519d
JK
4865 usbcore.blinkenlights=
4866 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off).
4867
4868 usbcore.old_scheme_first=
4869 [USB] Start with the old device initialization
bd0e6c96
ZT
4870 scheme, applies only to low and full-speed devices
4871 (default 0 = off).
fd7c519d 4872
3f5eb8d5
AS
4873 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb=
4874 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by
4875 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047).
4876
fd7c519d
JK
4877 usbcore.use_both_schemes=
4878 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme
4879 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled).
4880
4881 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
4882 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
6dddd7a7 4883 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
fd7c519d
JK
4884 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
4885
40d58148
ON
4886 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
4887
027bd6ca
KHF
4888 usbcore.quirks=
4889 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in
4890 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by
4891 commas. Each entry has the form
4892 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex
4893 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter
4894 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is
4895 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have
4896 the following meanings:
4897 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string
4898 descriptors must not be fetched using
4899 a 255-byte read);
4900 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume
4901 correctly so reset it instead);
4902 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle
4903 Set-Interface requests);
4904 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't
4905 handle its Configuration or Interface
4906 strings);
4907 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset
4908 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
4909 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has
4910 more interface descriptions than the
4911 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle
4912 talking to these interfaces);
4913 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause
4914 during initialization, after we read
4915 the device descriptor);
4916 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For
4917 high speed and super speed interrupt
4918 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec
4919 require the interval in microframes (1
4920 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be
4921 calculated as interval = 2 ^
4922 (bInterval-1).
4923 Devices with this quirk report their
4924 bInterval as the result of this
4925 calculation instead of the exponent
4926 variable used in the calculation);
4927 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't
4928 handle device_qualifier descriptor
4929 requests);
4930 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device
4931 generates spurious wakeup, ignore
4932 remote wakeup capability);
4933 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link
4934 Power Management);
4935 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL
4936 (Device reports its bInterval as linear
4937 frames instead of the USB 2.0
4938 calculation);
4939 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs
4940 to be disconnected before suspend to
4d8d5a39
KHF
4941 prevent spurious wakeup);
4942 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a
4943 pause after every control message);
781f0766
KHF
4944 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra
4945 delay after resetting its port);
027bd6ca
KHF
4946 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij
4947
1da177e4
LT
4948 usbhid.mousepoll=
4949 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
a9913044 4950
933bfe4d
TJ
4951 usbhid.jspoll=
4952 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at.
4953
2ddc8e2d
FA
4954 usbhid.kbpoll=
4955 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at.
4956
d4f373e5
AS
4957 usb-storage.delay_use=
4958 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
19101954 4959 scanned for Logical Units (default 1).
d4f373e5
AS
4960
4961 usb-storage.quirks=
4962 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
4963 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
4964 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
4965 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
4966 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
4967 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
4968 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
c838ea46
AS
4969 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
4970 of sense data);
a0bb1081
AS
4971 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18
4972 bytes of sense data);
d4f373e5
AS
4973 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
4974 device capacity by one sector);
5116901d
KR
4975 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use
4976 READ_DISC_INFO command);
4977 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use
4978 READ_CAPACITY_16 command);
734016b0
HG
4979 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes
4980 command, uas only);
ee136af4
HG
4981 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than
4982 240 sectors at a time, uas only);
c838ea46
AS
4983 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
4984 reported device capacity by one
4985 sector if the number is odd);
d4f373e5
AS
4986 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
4987 device);
13630746
HG
4988 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns
4989 command, uas only);
d4f373e5
AS
4990 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
4991 unlock ejectable media);
4992 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
4993 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
21c13a4f
AS
4994 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the
4995 initial READ(10) command);
c838ea46
AS
4996 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
4997 reported by the device);
eaa05dfc
NJ
4998 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON
4999 by default);
d4f373e5
AS
5000 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
5001 bogus residue values);
5002 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
5003 Logical Unit);
59307852
HG
5004 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16)
5005 commands, uas only);
b6089f19 5006 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver);
d4f373e5
AS
5007 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
5008 medium is write-protected).
050bc4e8
ON
5009 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
5010 even if the device claims no cache)
d4f373e5
AS
5011 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
5012
ac1667db
SB
5013 user_debug= [KNL,ARM]
5014 Format: <int>
5015 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text.
5016 1 - undefined instruction events
5017 2 - system calls
5018 4 - invalid data aborts
5019 8 - SIGSEGV faults
5020 16 - SIGBUS faults
5021 Example: user_debug=31
5022
14315592
IC
5023 userpte=
5024 [X86] Flags controlling user PTE allocations.
5025
5026 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in
5027 HIGHMEM regardless of setting
5028 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
5029
6cececfc 5030 vdso= [X86,SH]
b0b49f26
AL
5031 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise:
5032
5033 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
e6e5494c
IM
5034 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
5035
b0b49f26
AL
5036 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
5037 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
5038 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
5039
5040 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
5041 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
5042 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
5043
5044 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
5045 alias for vdso32=0.
5046
5047 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
5048 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
af65d648 5049
d080d397
YI
5050 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
5051 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
5052
1da177e4 5053 video= [FB] Frame buffer configuration
ab42b818 5054 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst.
1da177e4 5055
3afe6dab
AL
5056 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [0,1]
5057 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event
5058 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness
5059 level and then send out the event to user space through
5060 the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
5061 will only send out the event without touching backlight
5062 brightness level.
2843768b 5063 default: 1
3afe6dab 5064
81a054ce
PM
5065 virtio_mmio.device=
5066 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.
5067
5068 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>]
5069 where:
5070 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes
5071 like K, M and G)
5072 <baseaddr> := physical base address
5073 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to
5074 request_irq())
5075 <id> := (optional) platform device id
5076 example:
5077 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7
5078
5079 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices.
5080
cd4f0ef7 5081 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode
cb1aaebe 5082 See Documentation/x86/boot.rst and
4f4cfa6c 5083 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst.
1da177e4
LT
5084 Use vga=ask for menu.
5085 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
5086 passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
5087
f682a97a
AD
5088 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
5089 May slow down system boot speed, especially when
5090 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
5091 All options are enabled by default, and this
5092 interface is meant to allow for selectively
5093 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
5094 debugging features.
5095
5096 Available options are:
5097 P Enable page structure init time poisoning
5098 - Disable all of the above options
5099
a9913044 5100 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
1da177e4
LT
5101 size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
5102 minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
5103 decrease the size and leave more room for directly
5104 mapped kernel RAM.
5105
3f429842
HC
5106 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390]
5107 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory
5108 allocations for the vmcp device driver.
5109
585c3047
PO
5110 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.
5111 Format: <command>
1da177e4 5112
585c3047
PO
5113 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic.
5114 Format: <command>
5115
5116 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
5117 Format: <command>
a9913044 5118
3ae36655
AL
5119 vsyscall= [X86-64]
5120 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
5121 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy
5122 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older
5123 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these
5124 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
5125 targets for exploits that can control RIP.
5126
2e57ae05 5127 emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
bd49e16e
AL
5128 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5129 page is readable.
3ae36655 5130
bd49e16e
AL
5131 xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
5132 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
5133 page is not readable.
3ae36655
AL
5134
5135 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
5136 them quite hard to use for exploits but
5137 might break your system.
5138
3855ae1c
CL
5139 vt.color= [VT] Default text color.
5140 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background.
5141 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black.
5142
9ea9a886
CL
5143 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape.
5144 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as
5145 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence;
5146 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline.
5147
0cb55ad2
RD
5148 vt.default_blu= [VT]
5149 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
5150 Change the default blue palette of the console.
5151 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5152 ranging from 0-255.
5153
5154 vt.default_grn= [VT]
5155 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
5156 Change the default green palette of the console.
5157 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5158 ranging from 0-255.
5159
5160 vt.default_red= [VT]
5161 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
5162 Change the default red palette of the console.
5163 This is a 16-member array composed of values
5164 ranging from 0-255.
5165
5166 vt.default_utf8=
5167 [VT]
5168 Format=<0|1>
5169 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
5170 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
5171 newly opened terminals.
5172
f6c06b68
MG
5173 vt.global_cursor_default=
5174 [VT]
5175 Format=<-1|0|1>
5176 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
5177 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
5178 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
5179 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
5180 cursors, 1 will display them.
5181
3855ae1c
CL
5182 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15.
5183 Default: 2 = green.
5184
5185 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15.
5186 Default: 3 = cyan.
5187
4724ba57 5188 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers,
cc2a2d19 5189 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst
4724ba57
RD
5190 or other driver-specific files in the
5191 Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
1da177e4 5192
11295055
LO
5193 watchdog_thresh=
5194 [KNL]
5195 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration
5196 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector
5197 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0
5198 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10
5199 seconds.
5200
82607adc
TH
5201 workqueue.watchdog_thresh=
5202 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can
5203 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to
5204 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall
5205 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold
5206 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and
5207 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the
5208 corresponding sysfs file.
5209
d55262c4
TH
5210 workqueue.disable_numa
5211 By default, all work items queued to unbound
5212 workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
5213 issued on, which results in better behavior in
5214 general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
5215 whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
5216 that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
5217 workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
5218
cee22a15
VK
5219 workqueue.power_efficient
5220 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because
5221 they show better performance thanks to cache
5222 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to
5223 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues.
5224
5225 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which
5226 were observed to contribute significantly to power
5227 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower
5228 power usage at the cost of small performance
5229 overhead.
5230
5231 The default value of this parameter is determined by
5232 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
5233
f303fccb
TH
5234 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu
5235 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work
5236 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put
5237 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true
5238 and while local CPU is still preferred work items
5239 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option
5240 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out
5241 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee.
5242 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be
5243 impacted.
5244
0cb55ad2
RD
5245 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
5246 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
5247 supporting x2apic.
5248
712b6aa8
KS
5249 x86_intel_mid_timer= [X86-32,APBT]
5250 Choose timer option for x86 Intel MID platform.
bb24c471
JP
5251 Two valid options are apbt timer only and lapic timer
5252 plus one apbt timer for broadcast timer.
712b6aa8 5253 x86_intel_mid_timer=apbt_only | lapic_and_apbt
bb24c471 5254
c70727a5
JG
5255 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN]
5256 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen
5257 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is
5258 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain
5259 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger
5260 domains.
5261
c1c5413a
SS
5262 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN]
5263 Unplug Xen emulated devices
5264 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1]
5265 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices
5266 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices
5267 nics -- unplug network devices
5268 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks)
1dc7ce99
IC
5269 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is
5270 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to
5271 the unplug protocol
c93a4dfb 5272 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds
c1c5413a 5273
15a3eac0
KRW
5274 xen_nopvspin [X86,XEN]
5275 Disables the ticketlock slowpath using Xen PV
5276 optimizations.
5277
8d693b91
KRW
5278 xen_nopv [X86]
5279 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
5280 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
b39b0497
ZD
5281 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which
5282 has equivalent effect for XEN platform.
8d693b91 5283
197ecb38
MMG
5284 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN]
5285 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back
5286 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime
5287 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages.
5288 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT.
5289
2ec16bc0
RT
5290 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN]
5291 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen
5292 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum
5293 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values
5294 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing
5295 more timer interrupts.
5296
30978346
ZD
5297 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE]
5298 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run
5299 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support
5300 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest.
5301
1da177e4 5302 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
a9913044
RD
5303 Format:
5304 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
c0addc9a 5305
ba45cff6
MN
5306 xive= [PPC]
5307 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will
5308 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option
5309 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used:
5310
5311 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt
5312 controller on both pseries and powernv
5313 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above.
5314
c0addc9a
LT
5315 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
5316 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
5317 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
5318 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.